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evanescence

[ev-uh-nes-uhns] / ˌɛv əˈnɛs əns /
NOUN
dissipation
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Yu Ji’s cement sculptures take the shape of contorted human bodies—not uncomfortable but limberly twisted and folded—that are missing limbs; their contrasting materials and postures at once suggest permanence and evanescence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Another cause is the evanescence of serious history curricula in schools, and an ignorance of the honor in service.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

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

People strolled about, glancing up at the delicate ceiling above their heads and out to the far shore of the basin, where still more of the trees created a distant cloud of frail evanescence.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2023

How could she ever have thought evanescence was kinder?

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor