evaporation

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Recent Examples of evaporation The diurnal swing forces the whiskey deeper into the wood than typical Kentucky maturation, and the dry desert air drives evaporation hard. Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026 This weakens evaporation and slows upwelling of colder, deeper water. Dillon Amaya, The Conversation, 12 June 2026 Consolidating water in Lake Mead would reduce the amount of water lost to evaporation from the reservoirs’ surfaces and to seepage into the sandstone that forms Glen Canyon. Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 7 June 2026 By acting as a thin, natural mulch, the clippings slow evaporation and help stabilize soil temperature, creating a more resilient growing environment for grass roots. Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 7 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for evaporation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for evaporation
Noun
  • The city’s Centennial Olympic Park has become an international melting pot of fans, all sharing a mutual passion for the Beautiful Game.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 18 June 2026
  • Fan Fest has become a melting pot alongside the bars.
    Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • By allowing airflow to travel through the structure, heat dissipation increases by 91%, and reduces surface temperatures by 10%, so performance isn't compromised.
    George Yang, PC Magazine, 18 June 2026
  • These cooling elements provide an additional heat dissipation pathway from the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) package.
    Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Clark finished with 21 points, forcing Toronto to respect her scoring ability and preventing defenders from keying solely on her passing.
    Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
  • Taiwan was also the first traceable point of the passing of the many Austronesian languages, said Victoria Chen, a senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
    Wayne Chang, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • Curacao became an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 2010, following the dissolution of the Netherland Antilles.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 17 June 2026
  • The piano ballad follows the dissolution of a relationship as the couple grows apart.
    Katie Simons, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • His demise fit with the fading of the rest of the natural world.
    Liz Shulman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • Dish soap strips away the protective wax and can actually dull or damage the paint over time, leaving it more vulnerable to scratches and fading.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 16 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 23 Jun. 2026.

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