adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hopes of political unity in the region have proved ephemeral .
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No dictionary can really capture something as fleeting and ephemeral as slang.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few years later, it made timid and ephemeral attempts to pursue a progressive social policy.
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Goodwill can permit effective cooperation for purchasing of secondary care but goodwill is ephemeral when difficult decisions have to be made.
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I have no idea who they are, which just goes to show the ephemeral nature of psychiatric certainties.
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Likewise, those that thought they were too ephemeral and effervescent, began to appreciate them.
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Some were, of course, ephemeral , including books and articles written in the 1930s when he lived by his pen.
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The ephemeral nature of fluid flow belies the rigid rules which govern its behaviour.
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What is of merit, what is not ephemeral , is shunned.