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evaporate

[ih-vap-uh-reyt] / ɪˈvæp əˌreɪt /


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Legal exposure doesn’t evaporate because no human directed the act.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Eisenman adds that fans can cause more water to evaporate from your skin in dry conditions such as L.A., further drying you out.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Cooking and drying clothes indoors can also increase humidity, making it harder for sweat to evaporate.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

Richard Windsor, an independent analyst at Radio Free Mobile, said Alphabet’s earnings-per-share figure hinged largely on the “illusory security of a series of unrealized investment returns that will evaporate at the first hint of trouble.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 26, 2026

Old comets, heated by repeated passages near the Sun, break up, evaporate and disintegrate.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

But that sense of control evaporates as soon as Layla's period nears - the peak of her menstrual cycle.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

That is the real prize, and it evaporates the instant one man tries to seize it all.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

In those experiments, sodium chloride crystals form in a loose, porous structure as water evaporates.

From Science Daily May 31, 2026

Some of it evaporates into the air, where it creates acid rain.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

By simply changing the number of bubbles in each droplet, the team found they could dramatically alter the pattern left behind as the liquid evaporated.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

By then, I had gained self-confidence and my shyness had evaporated.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

While Platner—whose lead in the race had evaporated after a previous wave of stories about his relationship history—has not yet relented, he has suggested that he’s reassessing his run.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

His massive advantage had evaporated to a single stroke with Sam Burns in hot pursuit.

From BBC Jun. 21, 2026

Upset by the news, José Arcadio Buendía stood motionless, trying to rise above his affliction, until the group dispersed, called away by other artifices, and the puddle of the taciturn Armenian evaporated completely.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"We can apply these generalized laws to better understand evaporating black holes in quantum theory and black hole mergers, like those detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration using gravitational waves."

From Science Daily Jul. 13, 2026

It was a sign that the "spirit of Anchorage" has, if not disappeared, then at least started evaporating.

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

The nightmare scenario is playing out in Los Angeles, where a century-old entertainment economy is evaporating with no signs of a turnaround on the horizon.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 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

I felt my head swimming, my mind slowly evaporating.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi




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