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evanescent

[ev-uh-nes-uhnt] / ˌɛv əˈnɛs ənt /


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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

They’re for viewers making in-game bets on such evanescent propositions.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2024

They remain the gold standard, the blue-chip stocks, the flowering perennials amid each spring’s evanescent annuals.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2023

Every man, woman, and child who had died in Weep since...since when?...and passed near enough the citadel in their evanescent journey for Minya to catch.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor