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evanescent

[ev-uh-nes-uhnt] / ˌɛv əˈnɛs ənt /


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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

The writing had been individual attempts to capture moments, feelings, impulses; the reshaping was to shift those evanescent feelings into a coherent form.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2024

Natasha Allegri’s evanescent story about a seemingly ageless young woman named Bee and her companion — a grouchy, perpetually frowning cat-dog that falls on her head from outer space — began to appear in 2013.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2022

They are not just tiny and swift but also often tantalizingly evanescent.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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