evaporating

present participle of evaporate

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Recent Examples of evaporating Despite this seemingly critical importance to the automaker at a time when its profit margins are evaporating, Tesla may be contemplating a future without China. Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 4 Aug. 2026 Book review sections are evaporating; NPR has been eviscerated; and social media followings no longer seem to be reliably converting into book sales. Literary Hub, 15 July 2026 This means more of the sun's energy goes into evaporating plant and soil moisture as opposed to causing the temperature to rise. Trey Fulbright, CBS News, 1 July 2026 Sweat itself does not cool the body down, but the process of it evaporating off of the skin and turning into water vapour essentially transports heat away from the body and into the air. Victoria Forster, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 But the district acknowledged in public meetings and in our interviews that all the water leaking and evaporating along the way is wasteful. Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026 Liquid versions of this technology worked, but used toxic, fast-evaporating solvents. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 June 2026 Add a layer of mulch over the top of the soil to keep moisture from evaporating quickly. Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 June 2026 This protective layer of plant matter will help keep water from evaporating readily from the soil. Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporating
Verb
  • One week after Connecticut reserved $500 million from last year’s surplus to potentially replace vanishing federal dollars for human services, surging revenues already have replenished much of the state’s coffers.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The idea was to memorialize a vanishing Eden and the end of his five years of vagabonding, working on rivers, paying no rent.
    Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The workflows are versioned, reused, and improved rather than disappearing after a single interaction, and Sunny regularly coordinates with other agents.
    Will Drover, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Africa is warming faster than the global average, and a UN climate report said that Mount Kenya’s glaciers are disappearing particularly fast, losing more than half their area in the last decade.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That's particularly true given a rising risk of JetBlue underperforming on RASM and the fading likelihood of its consolidation with other airlines, Godyn said.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026
  • That workplace is fading, and the controls have not kept pace.
    Houman Akhavan, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Her aunt gave her a warm piece with margarine melting at the center.
    Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The Springfield Sliders became the Lucky Horseshoes in 2022, swapping out their Abraham Lincoln logo for a horseshoe swinging a french fry bat, complete with a drip of melting cheese.
    Kendra Nordin Beato, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2026

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“Evaporating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporating. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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