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

But it was in his novel “Next Season,” which I’m always foisting on theater friends, that Blakemore managed to capture the evanescent world of the stage in all its heartbreak and glory.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023

Next, Mr. Irwin wanted help producing the acrylic disks for which he would become known: evanescent convex shapes, mounted so they seemed to hover and lit from four sides to create a cloverleaf pattern.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

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

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