as in vanishing
to cease to be visible
by mid-morning the fog that had enshrouded the island had just evaporated
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Recent Examples of evaporating
The secret behind the formation of super-Earth and sub-Neptune exoplanets has been revealed, thanks to a study of four young planets that are evaporating.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Newer facilities rely on closed-loop cooling systems that recirculate cooling liquids instead of evaporating water.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
Coastal fog — which forms when moist air condenses over the cool, ocean water and drifts toward shore — then picks up water evaporating from the ocean surface, allowing methyl mercury to hitch a ride onto land.
—Daniella Garcia Almeida, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
Disrobed and taken apart, Sophia was carried off, the machinery revealed, any semblance of sentience evaporating the moment the costume came off.
—Dan Turello, New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2026
The evaporating water increases the humidity around the plant.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2025
Examples include the steam rising from a hot cup of coffee and evaporating sweat, as well as the Nobel Prize-winning method of using laser light to cool and trap individual atoms.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2025
Summer-grade gasoline is reformulated and requires more additives to keep the fuel from evaporating as easily during the heat and, therefore, from emitting more pollutants into the air.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
The moral panic is slowly evaporating.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
Keith Cooper, Space.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Newer facilities rely on closed-loop cooling systems that recirculate cooling liquids instead of evaporating water.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
Coastal fog — which forms when moist air condenses over the cool, ocean water and drifts toward shore — then picks up water evaporating from the ocean surface, allowing methyl mercury to hitch a ride onto land.
—Daniella Garcia Almeida, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
Disrobed and taken apart, Sophia was carried off, the machinery revealed, any semblance of sentience evaporating the moment the costume came off.
—Dan Turello, New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2026
The evaporating water increases the humidity around the plant.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2025
Examples include the steam rising from a hot cup of coffee and evaporating sweat, as well as the Nobel Prize-winning method of using laser light to cool and trap individual atoms.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2025
Summer-grade gasoline is reformulated and requires more additives to keep the fuel from evaporating as easily during the heat and, therefore, from emitting more pollutants into the air.
—Jordan Blum, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
The moral panic is slowly evaporating.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporating
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For decades Shtok was known as the great disappearing act of Yiddish literature—a modernist story writer who blazed bright in the 1920s before vanishing from the literary scene and, it was assumed, dying young.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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Our business life is vanishing.—
ELENA BECATOROS,
Arkansas Online,
20 Jan. 2026
Verb
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For decades Shtok was known as the great disappearing act of Yiddish literature—a modernist story writer who blazed bright in the 1920s before vanishing from the literary scene and, it was assumed, dying young.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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The report finds that rivers are running dry, lakes and wetlands are disappearing and groundwater is being pumped faster than it can be replenished — putting billions of people and much of global food production at risk.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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But her role as fading movie star Kay Stone in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, opposite Timothée Chalamet, marks her grand return.—
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Jan. 2026
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The days of underground stashes and whispered conversations are fading fast.—
Amplified Content Studio,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Salt dries into white rings, while melting snow can cause uneven water stains that stiffen leather, dull suede, and discolor fabric.—
Katie Cloyd,
Martha Stewart,
6 Jan. 2026
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The mountain snowpack functions as nature’s water bank, gradually melting to feed rivers and reservoirs through the dry months.—
Chaewon Chung
Updated January 6,
Sacbee.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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