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Recent Examples of short-lived The new policy, however, was short-lived. IndyStar, 13 Oct. 2025 Storms can be spotty and short-lived, while others can unleash strong winds, flashes of lightning and torrential downpours. Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 13 Oct. 2025 However, our excitement was short-lived. Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025 But that truce was short-lived because the Israelis were not interested in ending the war at that point, hostages or no hostages. Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for short-lived
Recent Examples of Synonyms for short-lived
Adjective
  • At the very end, his mother made a brief appearance to wrap up the routine.
    Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The two most recently fought a brief conflict earlier this year.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • And yet these wins may be temporary—the Administration is pursuing appeals.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And many supermarkets offer bags of flash-frozen cranberries year-round.
    Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • La’Vell Wright leads the ground game with 203 yards and five scores, while Matthew Henry is the big-play threat in the passing game with 21 catches, 377 yards, and three TDs.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The offensive passing game benefited with play-action fakes.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • My annual ritual of waiting for delicata squash’s arrival is a reminder to embrace the rhythms of nature and the fleeting beauty of certain culinary moments.
    Jill Schildhouse, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • After that, every human interaction felt precious and potentially fleeting.
    Joe Garcia, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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“Short-lived.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/short-lived. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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