as in to fade (away)
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Researchers at the Laboratory of Nanoscience for Energy Technology (LNET) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have engineered a nanodevice that uses light and heat to generate a stable current by evaporating saltwater.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Feb. 2026 -
On even longer timescales, the remnant black holes that were created, whether from stellar explosions, neutron star mergers, a collapsing gas cloud, or having grown into supermassive behemoths, will all evaporate.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Feb. 2026
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People know them — the pioneering flier and the Teamsters union president — because both of them vanished dramatically.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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The mechanism by which vanishing tariff revenues fuel the deficit is straightforward but massive in scale.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Melt (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melt%20%28away%29. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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