short-lived
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Short-lived pollutants play a critical role in global warming.
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2024
Short-lived radioactive aluminum in its interior could have provided a heat source powerful enough to keep water liquid.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 24, 2023
Short-lived isotopes, by definition, do not survive long and are rare in the universe.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2022
Short-lived Teresa dissipated Saturday after persisting for just a few days.
From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2021
But him Thetis in turn addressed, pouring forth tears: "Short-lived thou wilt be, O my son, as thou sayest, for fate is ready for thee immediately after Hector."
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
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