evaporating

present participle of evaporate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of evaporating The top layer is the oil that helps prevent tears from evaporating. — Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 2026 However, analysts have raised the alarm in recent weeks that these safety nets are rapidly evaporating due to the ongoing Middle East conflict. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026 Commodity execution is evaporating while judgment, direction and AI fluency command premiums. — Hammad Ali Nasir, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026 Novo Nordisk currently reuses some process water in cooling towers, where the water helps remove excess heat before eventually evaporating. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026 The result of this cooler atmosphere will be one more prone to squeezing out tropical moisture rather than just evaporating it. — Sean MacAday, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2026 The evaporating tariff windfall was a $200 billion hit to this year’s budget. — Diane Brady, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026 Wi-Fi’s origins trace back, in part, to a team of Australian radio astronomers trying to detect signals from evaporating black holes. — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2026 A lot of the solar energy goes into evaporating the moisture in the air, so in drier climates, more of the Sun’s energy can go directly into heating the air. — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporating
Verb
  • Along with Max, Erica advocated for a charity stamp to benefit vanishing species and has been vocal about LGBTQ+ visibility at baseball games.
    — Madeleine Janz, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2026
  • If live sports are the only thing preventing the bundle from vanishing outright, a stable virtual MVPD market has gone a long way toward moderating the overall losses in the pay-TV space.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Desperately seeking Europe’s ‘own resources’ Still, the negotiations are gathering pace just as ambitions for the EU in an uncertain world are on the rise but room for fiscal maneuver in many countries is disappearing.
    — Lorne Cook, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Short-term, month-to-month rentals (the kind that often show up on a rent roll in a town that runs on rotating crews) were disappearing.
    — Ken Lundin, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The Saints are fading after a strong start, and Tyler Shough is struggling and dealing with a left hand injury.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • In the rapidly fading light, a splendid buck muley took half a step forward and looked straight toward me.
    — Erwin A. Bauer, Outdoor Life, 14 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Importantly, the zero-melting scenario is an extreme modeling experiment, not a realistic prediction.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Which wet hole is the way out — and which leads to a pool of skin-melting digestive acid?
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

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“Evaporating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporating. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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