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
PepsiCo, one of the world’s largest food companies, is sticking to its goals to use more clean energy and climate-friendly farming practices despite evaporating federal support for those activities in the US, the company’s chief sustainability officer told Semafor.
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Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
That broke the navicular bone in her left foot, forcing her to withdraw from the trials and evaporating her hopes to make the Tokyo Games.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
Newfound enthusiasm about Jimmy Kimmel’s show is not evaporating after just one monologue.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
Yes, the rote tasks are evaporating and in the mix, many of us will be unemployed.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Near the equator, the sun bakes the sea, evaporating surface water and leaving salt behind.
—Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
In immersion cooling systems, servers are submerged in a fluid that carries heat away without evaporating water.
—Shaolei Ren, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
Most of these changes were just caused by the water evaporating.
—Joel S. Levine, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
The technology uses air to maintain a dry microclimate by evaporating sweat from the inside out, promoting evaporative cooling, per Polartec.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 30 Sep. 2025
That broke the navicular bone in her left foot, forcing her to withdraw from the trials and evaporating her hopes to make the Tokyo Games.
—Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 28 Sep. 2025
Newfound enthusiasm about Jimmy Kimmel’s show is not evaporating after just one monologue.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
Yes, the rote tasks are evaporating and in the mix, many of us will be unemployed.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Near the equator, the sun bakes the sea, evaporating surface water and leaving salt behind.
—Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
In immersion cooling systems, servers are submerged in a fluid that carries heat away without evaporating water.
—Shaolei Ren, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025
Most of these changes were just caused by the water evaporating.
—Joel S. Levine, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025
The technology uses air to maintain a dry microclimate by evaporating sweat from the inside out, promoting evaporative cooling, per Polartec.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporating
Verb
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Despite Hurricane Humberto vanishing off the map and Post-Tropical Cyclone Imelda safely out to sea, there’s no breather for the Atlantic this October.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
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But those scraps of goodwill may be vanishing.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Satellite imagery and field surveys show entire farming communities disappearing because their groundwater sources failed.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, 200 kilometers away in the Syrian desert, a Bedouin family shares their daily life with Danielle, an intimate archive of a disappearing world.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Exterior signs are fading and machinery has been left around the site.—
Laurie Whitwell,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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While pie crust seems to be fading away, some chefs would rather think completely outside the box by creating a completely different crust.—
Amber Love Bond,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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When temperatures started heating up, ice caps began melting, causing water from the Appalachian Mountains to flow into the Apalachicola River and eventually all the way down to the coast.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
7 Oct. 2025
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There's something so deeply satisfying about winnowing a huge capital ship down to its smallest components, finding critical welds and junctures, and melting them apart with your heat laser.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Evaporating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporating. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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