evaporation

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Recent Examples of evaporation Reservoir operators expect some water storage bodies to run dry, and some are also deliberately moving water to other parts of their systems to reduce the amount that will be lost to evaporation. Evan Bush, NBC news, 2 June 2026 But while the goal is to recreate the original juice, the color, aroma, or nutrients can be slightly reduced during the evaporation process. Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 31 May 2026 Offshoring began the massive evaporation of those jobs. Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 27 May 2026 Lake Powell, one of two massive reservoirs on the Colorado River, is just 23% full after decades of overuse and evaporation of water as average temperatures rise because of climate change. Dorany Pineda, Fortune, 27 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for evaporation
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Noun
  • Many researchers have theorized that melting Ice Age glaciers likely helped passively shift the Altar Stone closer to southern England’s Salisbury Plain around 2500 BCE, shortening the transport distance for Stonehenge’s creators.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 June 2026
  • Jazz is a quintessential American art form, one that was invented in America, a collision of very different influences of Afro-Caribbean influences and rhythms and European classical influences all coming together in this melting pot.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • These cooling elements provide an additional heat dissipation pathway from the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) package.
    Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
  • Sunburn makes heat dissipation much more difficult.
    Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • Sweeney’s character, Cassie Howard, ends the final episode still hustling, despite the violent death of her husband Nate (Jacob Elordi), the passing of her high school friend Rue (Zendaya), and the dismantling of her OnlyFans account.
    Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 9 June 2026
  • As with the original Quattro and the RS2, collectors have spotted the significance, appeal, and likely appreciation in value of the early manual R8s, which marry modern performance with the sense of an era passing.
    Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • But Hartman's water system is on the brink of collapse, prompting SB 157, which allows for rapid dissolution under certain circumstances.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 28 May 2026
  • Again, as Bungie’s only game now with nothing else greenlit, that could lead to the slashing or shutdown or dissolution of the studio entirely.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Helps to create a barrier against UV radiation to prevent fading, splitting, and splintering due to the wood drying out prematurely.
    Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 2 June 2026
  • Pistola Kinsley Flare Jeans Clooney opted for a pair of medium-wash jeans with subtle fading (another Y2K reference, IMO).
    Eva Thomas, InStyle, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Watching Moon and this better daughter, Stevie fantasizes about walking out of the store and vanishing.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • There were those e-books, the vanishing of book review sections and book reviews from newspapers, struggles of independent bookstores in the face of Amazon and, most recently, the invasion of AI, with its Claude, Perplexity, ChatGPT and Gemini with their seductive and threatening ways.
    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026

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“Evaporation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporation. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.

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