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The band's initial success was short-lived, and they faded from the charts within a year.short-lived = lasting a short time
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The truce between the warring factions proved to be short-lived, and fighting resumed after only a few days.
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His jubilance, however, was short-lived. (source)short-lived = lasted a short time
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Relief was short-lived. (source)short-lived = lasted only a short time
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Partly because she'd thought it would be such a short-lived deception. (source)short-lived = lasting only a short time
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But in all the cycles of Trisolaran civilization, this type of civilization was the weakest and most short-lived. (source)short-lived = lasting a short time
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Sometimes I did not understand him, but my periods of bewilderment were short-lived. (source)short-lived = lasting a short time
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After pinballing around Southern California, and doing a short-lived detour into the skiing culture of Mammoth Mountain, California, she decided she needed a less hectic lifestyle and a more challenging surf. (source)
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He knew that meant their mutiny had been short-lived, all three of them subdued in less than a minute. (source)short-lived = lasting only a short time
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Most nights the enemy would shoot pistol flares called 'very lights' over the trenches, short-lived stars suspended in the air from parachutes, meant to illuminate possible targets for snipers. (source)
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But the unbridled happiness of the reunion was short-lived.† (source)
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She could have stood there forever with him, but the reprieve was short-lived.† (source)
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His own surprise was short-lived, melting into an apology.† (source)
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Maybe they thought the invasion would be short-lived, and they thought they could wait it out.† (source)
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But they were very rare and short-lived.† (source)
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That way, he had realized back during his short-lived schooldays, lay only trouble.† (source)
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