evanescent
Example Sentences
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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
It can be evanescent, exposing weaknesses or revealing strengths and talent.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025
Sketches and blackouts are often evanescent, like an idea sketched on a cocktail napkin; some last only a few seconds yet might have been fiendishly complicated to prepare and execute.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2023
They remain the gold standard, the blue-chip stocks, the flowering perennials amid each spring’s evanescent annuals.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2023
If we were shrunk to the level of the neurons, we might witness elaborate, intricate, evanescent patterns.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
