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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of evanesce.

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  • However, my sympathy for their viewpoint quickly evanesces because of the tendentious fog throughout their press release, including the Big Lie that “being an undocumented immigrant is not a crime, it is a civil violation.”

    VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » What To Call An Illegal Alien?? 2007

  • However, my sympathy for their viewpoint quickly evanesces because of the tendentious fog throughout their press release, including the Big Lie that “being an undocumented immigrant is not a crime, it is a civil violation.”

    What To Call An Illegal Alien?? 2007

  • However, my sympathy for their viewpoint quickly evanesces because of the tendentious fog throughout their press release, including the Big Lie that “being an undocumented immigrant is not a crime, it is a civil violation.”

    Poll: U.S. Minorities Not Embracing Diversity 2007

  • So much beauty evanesces like foam lace the incoming tide is busy tatting.

    Jonathan Greene greenintegerblog 2008

  • If there was no serious Diana-Dodi romance, then the core motive for conspiracy evanesces like rain on a summer sidewalk.

    Five Fatal Decisions 2007

  • One thing about reading on line -- especially reading to blog -- is that what you don't finish evanesces.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • No sooner has this general notion been formed than it evanesces before the dialectic of Socrates; and Nicias appears from the other side with the Socratic doctrine, that courage is knowledge.

    Laches, or Courage 2006

  • His fury evanesces like fog under a blazing hot sun.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • No sooner has this general notion been formed than it evanesces before the dialectic of Socrates; and Nicias appears from the other side with the

    Laches 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • No image of the _sea_ is suggested; and arms, incongruous in relation to the literal sea, is not so in relation to a multitude; besides, that the image _arms_ itself, evanesces for the same reason into

    Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

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