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as in disappearing
to cease to be visible
the house vanished into the fog as we drove away
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Recent Examples of vanishing
Mason Leath,
ABC News,
19 June 2026
Watching Moon and this better daughter, Stevie fantasizes about walking out of the store and vanishing.
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Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
3 June 2026
There were those e-books, the vanishing of book review sections and book reviews from newspapers, struggles of independent bookstores in the face of Amazon and, most recently, the invasion of AI, with its Claude, Perplexity, ChatGPT and Gemini with their seductive and threatening ways.
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Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026
That’s followed by periods of contemplation, energized wakefulness, and, purportedly, a vanishing of withdrawal symptoms.
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Shayla Love,
The Atlantic,
24 May 2026
Sontag claimed to have forgotten about him, but his vanishing is better explained on writerly grounds.
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Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
Until Earhart disappeared on a round-the-world flight in 1937, New York judge Joseph Crater was the most renowned vanishing act.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
Perhaps that sudden ellipsis – the vanishing of a crisis that nearly tore the alliance to shreds weeks earlier – was gift enough.
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Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
15 Feb. 2026
When a breakdown at a gas station ends with Whitney vanishing, police dismiss it as a runaway, but Megan knows better.
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Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2026
Liam Quinn,
PEOPLE,
23 June 2026
Amazingly, Danhausen remained a Top-13 t-shirt seller even after vanishing from AEW TV for multiple years.
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Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
LaBarge frequently interrupts the telling to braid her narrative so tautly with those of others that their language blurs together, quotation marks vanishing, lines of demarcation eroding.
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Literary Hub,
18 June 2026
Concerns of a serial killer first emerged in late 2010 after the disappearance of Shannan Gilbert, a 23-year-old woman who placed panicked 911 calls from the Oak Beach community before vanishing into the surrounding marsh.
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Michael Ruiz , Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2026
Energy costs, vanishing federal subsidies and an administration in Washington hostile to clean energy are giving officials reasons to retreat from efforts to deal with climate change and the political cover to do so.
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Andres Clarens,
The Conversation,
17 June 2026
The body of a 5-year-old girl who was swept into the ocean with her family in Laguna Beach before vanishing in dangerously high surf has been recovered.
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Jazmin Alvarado,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
His spectral like figure seems to rise from the corpse, approaching the camera’s lens before vanishing.
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Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
11 June 2026
That, however, turned out to be a clever teaser, with the YouTube version promptly vanishing ahead of the album’s proper release.
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Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
8 June 2026
Noun
Upon driving home from work on the afternoon of Denise's vanishing, her husband Nathan Lee found their children, 2-year-old Noah and 6-month-old Adam, alone in the same crib.
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Mason Leath,
ABC News,
19 June 2026
Watching Moon and this better daughter, Stevie fantasizes about walking out of the store and vanishing.
—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
3 June 2026
There were those e-books, the vanishing of book review sections and book reviews from newspapers, struggles of independent bookstores in the face of Amazon and, most recently, the invasion of AI, with its Claude, Perplexity, ChatGPT and Gemini with their seductive and threatening ways.
—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026
That’s followed by periods of contemplation, energized wakefulness, and, purportedly, a vanishing of withdrawal symptoms.
—
Shayla Love,
The Atlantic,
24 May 2026
Sontag claimed to have forgotten about him, but his vanishing is better explained on writerly grounds.
—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
Until Earhart disappeared on a round-the-world flight in 1937, New York judge Joseph Crater was the most renowned vanishing act.
—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
Perhaps that sudden ellipsis – the vanishing of a crisis that nearly tore the alliance to shreds weeks earlier – was gift enough.
—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
15 Feb. 2026
When a breakdown at a gas station ends with Whitney vanishing, police dismiss it as a runaway, but Megan knows better.
—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
After vanishing, they have not been heard from since.
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Liam Quinn,
PEOPLE,
23 June 2026
Amazingly, Danhausen remained a Top-13 t-shirt seller even after vanishing from AEW TV for multiple years.
—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
LaBarge frequently interrupts the telling to braid her narrative so tautly with those of others that their language blurs together, quotation marks vanishing, lines of demarcation eroding.
—
Literary Hub,
18 June 2026
Concerns of a serial killer first emerged in late 2010 after the disappearance of Shannan Gilbert, a 23-year-old woman who placed panicked 911 calls from the Oak Beach community before vanishing into the surrounding marsh.
—
Michael Ruiz , Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2026
Energy costs, vanishing federal subsidies and an administration in Washington hostile to clean energy are giving officials reasons to retreat from efforts to deal with climate change and the political cover to do so.
—
Andres Clarens,
The Conversation,
17 June 2026
The body of a 5-year-old girl who was swept into the ocean with her family in Laguna Beach before vanishing in dangerously high surf has been recovered.
—
Jazmin Alvarado,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
His spectral like figure seems to rise from the corpse, approaching the camera’s lens before vanishing.
—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
11 June 2026
That, however, turned out to be a clever teaser, with the YouTube version promptly vanishing ahead of the album’s proper release.
—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
8 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanishing
Noun
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But Al-Juburi doesn’t see the result as a melting pot, which burns away the unique flavors and characteristics of each ingredient.
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And that traditional core American values include being a welcoming melting pot and nation of immigrants who want to embrace the world.
Verb
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None of this means Chinese firms are disappearing from Africa.
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This lighthearted cameo delighted longtime fans and underscored that, while the late-night institution has closed, Colbert himself isn't disappearing from the spotlight anytime soon.
Noun
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The key to their passing is, essentially, that the school kids always get dragged towards the ball over on one side, and the internationals can constantly switch the play to the opposite flank, where one of the trio is unmarked.
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The world that Clive was such a wonderful representative of has now vanished completely with his passing.
Verb
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More than a week after the disaster, search-and-rescue operations remain active, though hopes of finding additional survivors are rapidly fading.
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Thousands remain missing more than a week after the twin earthquakes struck Venezuela and hope for finding survivors is fading into and effort to recover remains.
Noun
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First, there is the wet bulb temperature, which is the lowest temperature at which the evaporation of water can cool the air.
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The body cools via sweat evaporation, but humid air hinders this process, leading to inefficient cooling.
Noun
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Allowing airflow to pass through the structure increases heat dissipation by 91% and lowers surface temperatures by 10%, so performance isn't compromised.
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These cooling elements provide an additional heat dissipation pathway from the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) package.
Noun
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According to Velina, shortly after Laverda’s disappearance, her purse or wallet was found on a stretch of highway in New Mexico.
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In the five months since Nancy's disappearance, multiple ransom notes have been sent to media outlets, including KOLD and TMZ, PEOPLE previously reported.
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“Vanishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanishing. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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