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ephemeral

[ih-fem-er-uhl] / ɪˈfɛm ər əl /


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The rainbow, however ephemeral, provides more than a grace note.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

See Vija Celmins’s expanses of wave-capped oceans, which remain as delicate and ephemeral in drypoint as they are in oil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Absorbing this well-chosen album is a treat, and a chance to appreciate the delicate mortality that thrives in a place simultaneously enormous, eternal and ephemeral.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

And the chair would be something worthy of as much lunch discussion as any horrific international crisis or ephemeral gossip.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

Other than that ephemeral close encounter, he hadn’t had a single interaction with another human in Richton Park in the three months he’d lived there.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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