short-lived
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of short-lived
First recorded in 1580–90
Vocabulary lists containing short-lived
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Rather than serving as "an impartial chronographic work," the researchers suggest it may instead have functioned as "a legitimizing canon of kings, which was periodically updated to remove short-lived or parallel Neo-Assyrian rulers."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
In 1976 she hosted a short-lived variety TV series, “Dolly!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
The task is to prove this is not a short-lived policy, and corners and set-pieces can be cleaned up.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Because within the CPI report was at least one reason to expect rate drops to be short-lived: rising auto-repair costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The project neatly combined work each had been doing previously—Lawrence’s research under Swann into the photoelectric effect in gas vapor and Beams’s investigation of short-lived physical phenomena.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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