Most news articles have been just as fleeting, but it has become harder to pretend. Search for any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner`s Dictionary app. Another short-lived newspaper, L`Italia del Popolo, was launched in his short career. Don`t assume I want to recommend bad music or faint, fleeting compositions. The premium over volatility seems to be a differentiation strategy that has worked for Triller so far. After an all-too-predictable hyperactive 21st century cycle, the focus on explosion was fleeting. They were undoubtedly mainly pantomime and fleeting in nature. All this can be ephemeral, because most politicians are ephemeral, a cynical way to get elected. Whatever his approval ratings, the Russian leader knows how transitory they can be. There is no fleeting onslaught of terror as you climb icy chimneys or descend hills. But as far as the stimulus is concerned, the ego stimulus seems quite narcissistic and transitory to me. Honk launches short-lived real-time messaging app for Gen Z – Instead of texting into the void and hoping for a response, friends on Honk communicate via messages that appear live as you type.

But as with all products in manure piles, their lives were fleeting. For RVs, this section of canyon country is a perfect winter trip, thanks to the smaller crowds and the ephemeral perspective of glittering snow on red sandstone. Widow Lawton decorated her kitchen floor in an ephemeral, though less expensive, way. We also knew that, given the transient nature of transits, the probability of an Earth-sized planet passing through a Sun-like star was only about 1 in 200. From: ephemeral in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable » Join our community to access the latest language learning and assessment tips from Oxford University Press! Recorded in English from the end of the 16th century as the plural of ephemeron, from Greek, neutral of ephēmeros « lasting only one day ». As a singular noun, the word originally referred to a plant that, according to ancient authors, lasted only one day, or an insect with a short lifespan, and was therefore (late 18th century) applied to a person or thing of short-lived interest. Current usage has been influenced by plurals such as anecdotes and memories. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English.

Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Things that exist or are only used or enjoyed for a short period of time; Collectibles, usually written or printed, that were originally intended to be useful or popular only in the short term.