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evanescence

[ev-uh-nes-uhns] / ˌɛv əˈnɛs əns /
NOUN
dissipation
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And in the final pages of the “Farewell Address” movement, the work’s brief coda proves moving in its gentle evanescence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 7, 2026

And when these apparitions vanish, the text’s overriding theme—of life’s evanescence but also its beauty—does finally dovetail with the ghostly images created by the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

They are intricate and variegated, playing with scale, with transience and permanence, with memory and evanescence.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2023

The book’s setting 30-odd years ago comes to dovetail with that age gap’s built-in sense of evanescence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2023

When humans died, their souls clung invisibly to their bodies for as long as they could—a day or two—and then they lost their grip and were claimed by the natural pull of evanescence.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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