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Recent Examples of evaporation
The basis of how hurricanes originate starts simply with the evaporation of warm tropical waters, which pumps water into the lower atmosphere.
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Maureen McCann, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 May 2025
This solves the problem of water evaporation from the sides of your basket, while still allowing water to drain through.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 24 May 2025
Its water is now about twice as salty as the ocean and continues to get saltier with evaporation, a shift that has caused drastic declines in fish and bird populations.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
Unfortunately this shortcut to producing amazing spirits has a downside; the cost is high in terms of evaporation, which can exceed 10% per year.
—Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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Maureen McCann, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 May 2025
This solves the problem of water evaporation from the sides of your basket, while still allowing water to drain through.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 24 May 2025
Its water is now about twice as salty as the ocean and continues to get saltier with evaporation, a shift that has caused drastic declines in fish and bird populations.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
Unfortunately this shortcut to producing amazing spirits has a downside; the cost is high in terms of evaporation, which can exceed 10% per year.
—Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporation
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Guan’s key insight—a precise limit on how rapidly the rate of dissipation changes during this heating process—proved to be just what Klartag and Lehec needed.—
Max Springer,
Scientific American,
5 June 2025
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Many aircraft are now equipped with accelerometers and send objective measurements of air disturbances, known as eddy dissipation rate, back to a central platform.—
Jim Foerster,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Days after the passing of son Niko McKnight, singer Brian McKnight has called out his brother and Niko’s uncle, Claude McKnight, for being the first to announce the 32-year-old’s death.—
Jessica Bennett,
VIBE.com,
4 June 2025
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Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
3 June 2025
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The breakthrough is the fruit of incredible recent performance in all age groups for the nation of 36 million people, which became independent in 1991 after the dissolution of the USSR.—
Hassan Tayir,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
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Why, then, engage language at all? Lijn explained her simultaneous recruitment and dissolution of language as a way to cope with her growing sense that words had become tired and lost any vital force.—
Marina Isgro,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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“Evaporation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evaporation. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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