evaporation

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Recent Examples of evaporation Heat also can raise evaporation rates, further stressing vegetation and prolonging dry conditions, especially when winds increase. Newsroom Meteorologist, Houston Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2026 Of particular concern is the end this year of federal pandemic relief funding, which for several years has helped prop up the budgets of all American cities — the evaporation of those funds will make the task of sustaining progress only more difficult. Katie Hill, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2026 Previously, this heat was dispensed into the atmosphere through evaporation cooling towers, but CERN's new plan is to put this waste heat to some use while improving the facilities environmental signature by way of what's called the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment. New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2026 That could mean many more PBHs are in the final stages of evaporation today. Quanta Magazine, 23 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for evaporation
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Noun
  • The Avalanche Association also said recent avalanches, rapid melting, heavy snowfall or rain, and cracking or collapsing snow can all mean the terrain is prone to an avalanche.
    Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Bartlett also notes that induction melting—the method the mint described using—is a very common, flexible way to melt metal, especially when scrap is part of the feedstock.
    Eric Sullivan, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • These atomic motions define heat dissipation, chemical reactions and material properties.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Experts question the feasibility and timeline, citing technological challenges including radiation-resistant chips, heat dissipation and communication obstacles.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • His passing was announced in a statement posted to social media.
    Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 17 Feb. 2026
  • But in the upper grades of 9-12, cell phones may be used during the lunch break and briefly checked or used for essential communications during the six-minute passing period window between classes, according to the policy.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Most of this work has focused on improving the materials themselves – reducing dissolution in the electrolyte and increasing electrical conductivity.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Intertextuality is described by Scarlett Barton in perhaps the opposite way, as linked to Roland Barthes’ observation that the author is dead, and that the text is the dissolution of every kind of voice, every beginning and core.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Meanwhile, a low-luster finish gives paint a subtle sheen that wears off over time, while minimizing overall fading because the paint is better protected from the elements.
    Shagun Khare, Martha Stewart, 19 Feb. 2026
  • But Schanelec also exhibits a talent for depicting fading romance, doing it in an elusively deadpan way that at times recalls the work of Eric Rohmer.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Perhaps that sudden ellipsis – the vanishing of a crisis that nearly tore the alliance to shreds weeks earlier – was gift enough.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 15 Feb. 2026
  • When a breakdown at a gas station ends with Whitney vanishing, police dismiss it as a runaway, but Megan knows better.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2026

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“Evaporation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporation. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.

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