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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In 2020, Liu and his team made billions of dollars in gains for Vitol betting that the impact of the pandemic on the oil market would be short-lived, people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
July was an ugly month for artificial-intelligence stocks but the correction was short-lived and the rebound fast and meaningful.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
For each of those events, the researchers mapped how energy was distributed throughout the short-lived quark-gluon plasma.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Both maximum and minimum temperatures were consistently above normal with only very short-lived bursts of heat, falling short of any official heatwave.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
But I fear her joy will be very short-lived.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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