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evaporate

[ih-vap-uh-rayt] / ɪˈvæp əˌreɪt /


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A third Toyota driver, Sami Pajari, finished a further one point behind in third - having seen his own title challenge evaporate on the final weekend.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

The solvent was allowed to evaporate before termites were introduced.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Experts have told The Times, humidity impedes the body’s ability to cool itself naturally, because the moist atmosphere doesn’t allow for sweat to evaporate as easily, causing you to continue to get warmer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Some millennials, in particular those who watched housing wealth evaporate during the Great Recession, may also see homeownership as “a liability,” said Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, a senior research associate at the Harvard housing studies center.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

If, in other words, the matter were treated routinely and with a minimum of fuss, it would quickly evaporate.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Dry heat browns, evaporates and concentrates while you go do something else.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Through spreadsheets they have to keep track of things like ammunition, food, fuel, water, even down to the rate at which water evaporates depending on the heat.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

There is no especially good reason for this, and it pretty much evaporates for the remainder of the eight-episode series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Heat domes can cause "dry thunderstorms," in which rain evaporates before hitting the ground and lightning strikes are liable to trigger wildfires, as much of the western United States is already experiencing drought conditions.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

It was understood that water evaporates from the oceans and becomes rain, and that the rain feeds rivers which flow to the ocean.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Household wealth has evaporated, and with it, confidence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The skepticism I had heard at the beginning of the afternoon had evaporated.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

"There was so much clamour around him - then it just evaporated," he recalls.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

U.S. stocks fell as the brief calm in the bond market evaporated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

“Fabulous,” said Charles, padding into the kitchen, his moist feet tracking prints that evaporated instantly on the shiny, tomato-red linoleum.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Teenage work has been evaporating across the nation since the 1980s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Dry land encourages higher temperatures because less of the Sun's energy is used in evaporating moisture, leaving more available to heat the ground and the air.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

"Not only have we been able to clear the view, but we can finally pin down what the clouds are made out of and how they're condensing and evaporating as they move around the planet."

From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026

“The argument for having lower rates is just evaporating right before our very eyes,” said Brian Bethune, an economist at Boston College, in an interview.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

Now that she sees all that progress evaporating, the seventh-grade president is afraid she’ll never have a chance to be eighth-grade president.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman




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