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Meanings of ephemeral in inglês

russo
пересыхание
português
efémero

That which only exists briefly.

        efémero

        Lasting or existing for a short time only.

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            Examples for "ephemerality"
            Examples for "ephemerality"
            1
            And now we're hitting a new apex of ephemerality in our currency.
            Wired
            2
            He thinks it highlights the ephemerality of the human reign on Earth.
            News.com.au
            3
            He is also good at illustrating the ephemerality of pop music.
            The Irish Times
            4
            But then, ephemerality was the summation of most human activities.
            The evolutionary void
            5
            Design projects this sense of immediacy and ephemerality not only through T-shirts or the Internet.
            The Civilization of Illiteracy

            Anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form.

                  Usage of ephemeral in inglês
                  1
                  However, it can be done without sacrificing the ephemeral for the essential.
                  Ebony
                  2
                  They are just one esoteric, perhaps ephemeral, way a league does business.
                  The Guardian
                  3
                  Auden is saying that love, ephemeral in nature, becomes eternal in language.
                  The Guardian
                  4
                  She looked strangely ephemeral, as if he was seeing her through water.
                  Something in the water
                  5
                  Some seek eternal beauty, and place their ephemeral life in the infinite.
                  Thais
                  6
                  She watched until the ephemeral hues faded and the clear blue grayed.
                  The Mammoth Hunters
                  7
                  Even the walls were made of metals far less ephemeral than steel.
                  The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
                  8
                  For a second I felt it against my fingers, cool and ephemeral.
                  The Wise Man’s Fear
                  9
                  As a rule, sorcerers rarely indulged in such ephemeral and energy-sapping pleasures.
                  The nomad
                  10
                  How suggestive this, of the ephemeral fame of even a great lawyer:
                  Something of Men I Have Known / With Some Papers of a General Na...
                  11
                  I am not self-deceived as to the ephemeral nature of military popularity.
                  Prince Eugene and His Times
                  12
                  It kept us waking before dawn to hunt the extremely ephemeral ice.
                  Climbing Magazine
                  13
                  During these ruminations I become intensely aware of how ephemeral we are.
                  Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
                  14
                  The friendship of their youth had turned out to be merely ephemeral.
                  In the Midst of Alarms
                  15
                  But if ephemeral art forms can't beat history, they must join it.
                  The Irish Times
                  16
                  You know, music is the most fleeting and ephemeral of the arts.
                  Metro 2034
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                  português
                  efémero
                  Ephemeral through the time
                  Ephemeral across language varieties
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