evanescent
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But unless Gen. Munir can revive the country’s stagnant economy and calm its restive population, his diplomatic gains will likely prove evanescent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Music is evanescent, and popular music even more so, but “The Music Is Black” is both an experience and a chronology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
While investors walk on eggshells anticipating Fed decisions, tariff relief, and evanescent cease-fires, one company is steadily feeding investors nutritious dividends, cash flows, and earnings per share growth.
From Barron's ● Dec. 11, 2025
More recently, her 2015 production of “The White Snake” at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre turned an ancient Chinese fable into entrancing, if evanescent, theatrical entertainment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
If we were shrunk to the level of the neurons, we might witness elaborate, intricate, evanescent patterns.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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