as in shortness
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time
builders of elaborate sand castles seem not at all bothered by the impermanency of their creations
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Pegula, Anisimova and Gauff should be pleased with their early-round draws, which are more important on SW19’s grass than at any other Grand Slam, because of the shortness of the season and the lack of time to build rhythm.
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How much of his life, his desperate desire for success, greatness, had been prompted by his shortness?
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Yet in an era increasingly defined by digital abstraction and impermanence, fashion designers are newly preoccupied with the tangible and historic.
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Pyrotechnic spectaculars thrill us with movement, surprise, poignant impermanence — and those qualities distinguish dance, as well.
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Locke also had a high transiency rate before Green Dot was in charge.
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That is everybody in college basketball in an era of transaction and transiency that has been compared to unlimited free agency without a salary cap.
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But in Faiz’s poem, the union with the beloved also contains an acute awareness of mortality and the transience of beauty – a recognition of what has been lost, and the suffering still to come.
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Their eyes evoke deep contemplation of the transience of life.
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The filmmaker rarely lingers, making brief moments of grace — like Gabrielle peeking in at her mom and stepdad taking a nap — all the more resonant for their evanescence.
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To explain why a gag is funny is to crush its soufflé evanescence.
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Her collection preserves not only the traces of a public life, but evidence of a performer who refused to separate politics from performance and performance from ephemerality.
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The irresistible ephemerality of a series of single-bite courses, each one in front of you for just a moment, never to be enjoyed by anyone else ever again.
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“Impermanency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impermanency. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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