as in shortness
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time
nothing makes the fleetingness of summer more apparent than the arrival of Labor Day
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But like him, Edwards said, every resident in the city affected by the wildfires is also learning a valuable lesson about the transience of possessions.—
Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
12 Jan. 2025 -
But that depth is harder to maintain in the NIL/portal era of player transience.—
Matt Baker,
The Athletic,
9 Jan. 2025
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But the movement took off only after the horrors of the Franco-Prussian War drove artists to create works focused on the impermanence of life.—
Staff,
The Christian Science Monitor,
18 Dec. 2024
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But there is also a Japanese tradition, much influenced by the Buddhist notion of impermanence, that delights in the fleetingness of beauty, as with the cherry blossom that swiftly loses its bloom.—
Ian Buruma,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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Perhaps the most beautiful thing about these sweets are their ephemerality.—
Caroline Newton,
Bon Appétit,
12 Dec. 2024
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But his understanding of the ephemerality of youth lends emotional impact to what might otherwise have been just killer party music.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
3 Dec. 2024
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Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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How will societies grapple with the evanescence of human decision-making and the disintermediation of other vocational activities?—
Douglas B. Laney,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
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But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
27 July 2022
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The council will hold a workshop outlining strategies and efforts to remedy homelessness and transiency in the city.—
Laura Groch,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Feb. 2021
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