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Recent Examples of evaporate Passing by the sun too often would have caused many of them to evaporate quickly. Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025 But as television news viewership continues to evaporate, perhaps the new Paramount regime will be a bit ahead of the curve. Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Most of these changes were just caused by the water evaporating. Joel S. Levine, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025 In the meantime, consumers can expect to find deals as EV inventory evaporates. Jamie L. Lareau, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for evaporate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporate
Verb
  • But before long his hearing begins to disappear, leading him down a panicked trail of denial, anger and desperation.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Normally that motion disappears without a trace, but a growing field of research aims to capture it and turn it into electricity for sensors, wearable devices and other small electronics.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Entire industries appear and vanish with the velocity of software updates.
    Joseph Coughlin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Remember their 10-game skid, the losing streak that seemed to sink the season, the one during which Luis Ortiz vanished because of a gambling investigation, the one during which the Guardians couldn’t muster anything at the plate?
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After a pause, the composition takes on a searching quality, as the melody travels from one instrument to the next, including a compelling viola solo performed by principal viola Maiya Papach, eventually fading out to nothing, leaving the audience suspended in uneasy quiet.
    Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The long-standing expectation was that these resonance signals would fade and become negligible as the momentum transfer increased.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Some of the summer heat has melted away, with the golden days around 75F.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • On their simulated planet, clouds released rain that froze into icebergs that melted and flowed down rivers, soaking soil and evaporating to rejoin the atmosphere.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Evaporate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporate. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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