evaporation

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Recent Examples of evaporation Yet with the evaporation of what once seemed like a bottomless pit of money from the Saudis’ sovereign Public Investment Fund, O’Neil and his team have not finalized a business plan that could sustain LIV into the future. Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 5 May 2026 That, in turn, can speed evaporation and sublimation, which is the snow turning directly from a solid to a gas without turning to liquid. Alan Gionet, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026 Leaves of maturing plants provide shade and reduce evaporation. ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026 If water is necessary, water in the morning to slow evaporation. Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 30 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for evaporation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporation
Noun
  • The melting pot implied that citizens gradually shed the distinctiveness of their traditions in order to become fully American.
    Ari Berman, New York Daily News, 15 May 2026
  • All of them have at least one roster, or two, that is a melting pot.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • To measure overall turbulence, Turbli used a metric called the eddy dissipation rate, or EDR, to assign turbulence level scores.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2026
  • Brembo says the discs have been designed for rapid heat dissipation, while the mineral oil's viscosity remains stable across a wide range of temperatures.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • He should be selected for his world-class passing and set pieces alone.
    The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 13 May 2026
  • Parents cheer the passing of a resolution to limit screen time at a recent Los Angeles school board meeting.
    Tyler Kingkade, NBC news, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • The researchers found that the cities’ chemical microenvironments increase calcite dissolution.
    Damien Pine, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
  • McMahon's first words to the committee, after the usual thank-you's, were a flag-planting for the department's forceful dissolution.
    Cory Turner, NPR, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • The scalloped edge is punctuated by double tassels carefully placed along the edge of the all-weather Sunbrella fabric that promises to repel mildew or prevent fading.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 13 May 2026
  • Machine-washable without color fading, shrinkage or pilling.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • Nails with black finger polish, like Susana wore on the eve of her vanishing, were found in the woods.
    Mason Leath, ABC News, 8 May 2026
  • Sontag claimed to have forgotten about him, but his vanishing is better explained on writerly grounds.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026

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“Evaporation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporation. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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