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verb

past tense of evaporate

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Recent Examples of evaporated
Verb
Although the outcomes continued to go against them and their chances of making the playoffs evaporated long ago, their effort never waned. Vic Tafur, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024 The land dried up, and the Aral Sea—the great oasis of the Asian steppes—evaporated. Henry Duckworth, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024 The sheer amount of investment Russia made in Syria has now evaporated. Daniel Markind, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024 In 2024, Cuba has suffered island-wide rolling blackouts that lasted more than a week, hundreds of thousands of people emigrated from the island and the social safety net once provided by the government all but evaporated. Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024 Once support from tech evaporated, no other groups were able to step in to fill that gaping hole. CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024 Advertisement All those plans evaporated relatively quickly. Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024 But the defensive pressure evaporated as the Spurs began to clamp down on their turnovers and heat up from long range. Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 6 Dec. 2024 Almost $6 trillion evaporated after the dot-com collapse in the early 2000s, and the global economic system crashed when the housing bubble burst in 2008. Byrne Hobart, Big Think, 10 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporated
Adjective
  • In my household, what used to be a week or longer trip has now become condensed to long weekends.
    Jason D. Seacat, Hartford Courant, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The channel will feature over 50+ hours of live, near-live and VOD content including ceremonial weigh-ins, press conferences and condensed replays.
    Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Any signs of disconnect between the stands and the pitch during that nervy final stage disappeared in the dark of Deepdale as the players repeatedly ran the length of the pitch to belly slide towards the away end, even returning from down the tunnel to prolong the celebration.
    Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The confidence of key young players has disappeared.
    Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Hair masks help to replenish and repair by deeply hydrating and nourishing your strands with concentrated conditioning ingredients.
    Felicity Carter, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Many vendors offer concentrated kratom extracts, which are significantly more potent than regular kratom powder.
    Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Continue reading … MISSING IN ACTION – Congresswoman who quietly vanished from Capitol Hill has been living in a retirement facility.
    Fox News, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Some visions of moral progress look forward to a world in which the in-group/out-group distinction has vanished.
    Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • There's a lot of American cheese melted on top, and a demure pile of raw onion.
    Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Dec. 2024
  • This, of course, is exactly what happened in Syria, where the regime’s supporters melted away.
    Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2024

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“Evaporated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporated. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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