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evanescent

[ev-uh-nes-uhnt] / ˌɛv əˈnɛs ənt /


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Evanescent is not the D.C. artist’s only mode.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2016

Evanescent waves can reveal details smaller than a wavelength, but they are hard to capture because they peter out so quickly.

From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2011

Evanescent rashes, which have nothing in common with the specific exanthem, are sometimes observed at this period.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

If the grander flowers I sought, But these berry-blooms to you, Evanescent as their dew, Only these I brought.

From Blooms of the Berry by Cawein, Madison J.

Evanescent expressions all of them, but important as showing the feelings entertained towards her by these men among whom she had been living for more or less time as a sister.

From One of My Sons by Green, Anna Katharine




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