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Recent Examples of evanesce Gilchrist replies, his voice brightening the way an ancient sun suddenly burns through an evanescing cloud. Chris Richards, Washington Post, 7 June 2023 Other details — running water, a smudged kingfisher — appear only to evanesce. Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2021 Monkfish in a gripping mussel broth found its voice in between sips of an off-dry Alsatian pinot gris, its honeyed sweetness just evanescing off the brine of the seafood. Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 3 Jan. 2020 The experience of simply having the experience, and letting each moment arrive unexpectedly and evanesce in its own time. Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 29 June 2018 The number of daily active users in March was lower than the average for the first quarter as a whole, a signal that Snap's user base may be evanescing into the void. Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 2 May 2018 The arc of his coming to America is dizzying: mystery begat hype, hype yielded to skepticism, skepticism evanesced under sheer amazement. Si.com Staff, SI.com, 9 Apr. 2018 And with every new meeting, my hatred has evanesced like fog in a bright sun. Will Blythe, Esquire, 1 Apr. 2010
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evanesce
Verb
  • South Korean family mysteriously disappears on drive from Grand Canyon to Las Vegas.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Denise, her sister-in-law and the child had stopped inside a butcher shop when James disappeared.
    KC Baker, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Per the logline, when a teenage musician vanishes in New Orleans, Colter teams up with a local detective (Marci House) and uncovers a chilling mystery involving dark magic.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Michelle Citron Sugerman, who later tended to elevators and escalators at Sears Tower, then the tallest building in the world, wonders if the small forays that women have made in the construction trades since the 1980s will simply vanish.
    Andrea Hsu, NPR, 20 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The Federal Railway Safety Act But Cassity and other union leaders remain concerned that little requires railroads like Norfolk Southern to maintain these protocols once the headlines of East Palestine fade away.
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Third to Journalism in the recent San Felipe Stakes — the race that more or less made Journalism a candidate Derby horse and that saw Rodriguez fade to show — Rodriguez currently clings to step No. 30 on the Derby points ladder, with 21-plus points.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025

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“Evanesce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evanesce. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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