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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame.
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If Western women remember how they once approached equality, they remember it as an evanescent dream that died unborn.
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She spoke to Frankl who guided her to what is eternal and evanescent in life.
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Talk is evanescent but writing leaves footprints.
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They were like a new kind of creature: light, evanescent , frivolous and absolutely predatory.
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This perception strikes one as promising, but the impression may be evanescent .