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ephemera

[ih-fem-er-uh] / ɪˈfɛm ər ə /


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The musician, curator, TV producer, visual artist and collector has an ongoing exhibition from her personal catalog of L.A. punk artifacts and ephemera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

This level of detail is the essence of his songwriting—by singling out the character actor from films like “Contact” and “Armageddon,” he shows how we fixate on ephemera as a way of avoiding existential terror.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The new complex’s museum presents a bland, uninspiring collection of ephemera.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

It’s clear that “Forbidden Fruits” director and co-writer Meredith Alloway has marinated in plenty of ’90s teen movies and the kitschy pop-culture ephemera of that era.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Insects, like petals of roses, garnish a bush; the remains of ephemera make a bed of snow upon the soil.

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert

Scanning the globe and the human ephemerae upon it from the point of view of a millionaire in years, Wells still considers that "Nazi Germany may well bring down conclusive disaster on our species."

From Time Magazine Archive

I do not, however, mean to say that they are the same flies, but more probably successive generations of ephemerae of the same species.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various

Above, against the slaty-gray cloud-wrack, four exquisite slender girl-forms appeared, with loose hair, silver-gray drapery and gauzy wings as of ephemerae, flying in pursuit of the cloud.

From A Crystal Age by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Then there are the blue and the brown, both ephemerae, which come on, the first in dark days, the second in bright days; these flies, when well imitated, are very destructive to fish.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various

He should neither praise nor blame nor defend his equals; he should not strike one blow at the buzzing ephemerae of letters.

From Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang

To talk of "relaxations," whether in cultural or political control, or of economic or social reform, is to talk of ephemeras.

From Time Magazine Archive



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