evanescent
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Nor could Wilder in his greatest play: Life, he reminds us, is precious but evanescent, and all too often we move through it without grasping its value and its beauty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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
“A recipe is a moment in time,” he says, changing constantly in its execution and evanescent.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2022
But first they were unmade, their edges fading like the evanescent white bird, Wraith, as it phased through the skin of the sky.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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