as in flash
lasting only for a short time
savor the fugacious pleasures of life as intensely as the more enduring ones
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Recent Examples of fugacious
And even long-term, canonical sources such as books and scholarly journals are in fugacious configurations—usually to support digital subscription models that require scarcity—that preclude ready long-term linking, even as their physical counterparts evaporate.
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Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic, 30 June 2021
Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic, 30 June 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fugacious
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What To Know A map shared by the NWS on Facebook showed a broad corridor of flash-flood risk spanning the Western states and Southern Plains.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Aug. 2025
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The emerging miners, exposed directly to the flash during its first split second, were covered in flash-absorbing black.—
Charles Pellegrino,
Rolling Stone,
6 Aug. 2025
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The brief Bagley lead was filed on behalf of Mathew Shurka, an LGBT advocate who testified in support of Colorado’s law while it was being debated.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
7 Oct. 2025
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And in what could be even better news—for everyone other than Matthews, anyway—his reign atop the earnings ranking is likely to be brief.—
Brett Knight,
Forbes.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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For scientists who track animal behavior, the eclipse provided the perfect natural experiment to see how birds react to temporary changes in light, something that is difficult to achieve in a laboratory setting.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 Oct. 2025
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And yet these wins may be temporary—the Administration is pursuing appeals.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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In fact, the tranquility of the rocking waves, or maybe the transient, ineffable quality of the water, seems to have lodged in Christian’s brain.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
7 Oct. 2025
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The recent brightening could be a transient outburst rather than a steady increase as the comet approaches to the sun, only time will tell.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Rush is the more logical choice if the Ravens are prioritizing making plays downfield in the passing game.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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He's tied for the third-most passing touchdowns and is fourth in passing yards and ninth in passer rating so far this season.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Still, this is evanescent stuff, hardly weighty enough to get mad about with respect to the aforementioned problematic areas.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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The benefits of being a statesman, analysts say, can be evanescent if domestic woes keep piling up.—
Mark Landler,
New York Times,
23 Mar. 2025
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Up ⬆ One Battle After Another The Oscars are very much not determined by statistics; there are graveyards full of Oscar hopefuls that looked like winners on paper but ultimately didn’t connect with voters for some ephemeral reason or another.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2025
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Emphasizing the project’s conceptual basis, one particularly ephemeral edition, The Biggest Nemyrivskiy Art Center, 2013, was a roughly nineteen-thousand-square-foot rectangle outlined on a snowy field by a plow, disappearing as soon as the snow began to melt.—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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From their perspective, a star is just a transitory stage, a chrysalis.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
24 Sep. 2025
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All empires are transitory, right?—
Nikki McCann Ramirez,
Rolling Stone,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Fugacious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fugacious. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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