Antonym: agelong. Similar words: shortly, outlive, live down, short, shorts, in short, shorten, shortage. Meaning: [‚ʃɔrt'lɪvd /ʃɔːt-] adj. lasting a very short time.
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61. Mr Greenspan is keen to portray the current slowdown as mild and short-lived.
62. While still at school Widgery had written for a short-lived national schools magazine, which rapidly collapsed.
63. Parker's complacency about acceptance of Gothic must have been short-lived.
64. An agricultural commune was established at Lindfield but seems to have been short-lived, and Lord Chichester helped 300 people to emigrate.
65. With reports of a big seller, Vodafone suffered a short-lived dip to 351p.
66. Two years of short-lived study plans and short-term jobs, two years of going nowhere, had taken their toll.
67. In spite of their general conservatism the bivalves did produce some short-lived, bizarre forms with no living survivors.
68. Newspaper publishing is capital-intensive, and the product is vulnerable to even short-lived strikes.
69. FoE suggests that the initial enthusiasm for saving water may be short-lived.
70. However, his moment in the sun was short-lived as he was eliminated by Amato in the second round.
71. A short-lived ceasefire broke down in January after army commanders demanded another chance to smash the Tigers.
72. That factory turned out to be a short-lived exercise and a gross waste of Government money.
73. This is because higher level waste is initially rich in short-lived isotopes which are highly radioactive.
74. Unfortunately improvement was short-lived, lasting only a few weeks in those with more severe forms of the disease.
75. But this short-lived diplomatic episode was not entirely without significance.
76. Chantal told Martine about her short-lived marriage.
77. Ideally, according to the investigators, an effective calmative would be easy to administer and be adaptable for use in a variety of forms, fast-acting but short-lived, and reversible.
78. DooneButwhen the sameprecedureprocedure was tested on mice aged one week, the heart failed to regenerate, suggesting this ability to self-repair is extremely short-lived.
79. An attempt to restore the gold standard in the 1920s was short-lived: Britain left the full gold standard permanently in 1931, as did the United States two years later.
80. Thina Saltvedt, senior oil markets analyst at Nordea Bank Norge, said that the pressure prices were coming under could be short-lived.
81. For example, a quick, short-lived integration scenario is required to solve immediate business problems and one case where point to point services could be used.
82. In situations where many short-lived temporary files are created, XFS may never need to write these files to disk at all.
83. Ultimately, he says, people can't rely on short-lived salaries, promotions and raises to keep them happy but rather the contributions they make in the long run.
84. If the short-lived moonlet emerged from a debris disk, as Earth's moon did, the moonlet could have forced leftover debris onto Iapetus to form the walnut ridge.
85. When spring comes within, many-coloured short-lived fancies are born and flit about in the mind, ordinarily unnoticed.
86. In lower plants such as mosses and liverworts the persistent vegetative plant is haploid, the sporophyte being a relatively short-lived phase.
87. Japan, which in the 19th century took on board western notions of the sovereign state, absorbed Ryukyu (now Okinawa) and went on forcibly to incorporate much of Asia into its short-lived empire.
88. If the yuan, however, begins to move down, that applause is sure to be short-lived.
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89. His runner-up finish at this year's US Open seemed like it would be the start of his resurgence, but his success at Bethpage Black was short-lived.
90. An individual event object is short-lived, and exists only long enough for immediate processing before it ceases to be.