into thin air
idiom
: in a very sudden and mysterious way
My keys seem to have vanished/disappeared into thin air.
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Imagine trying to build a sturdy wall with bricks that keep floating away into thin air—that’s essentially what happens when cathode material dissolves in a thermal battery.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 12 Jan. 2026
But this year Ross became a ghost, vanishing into thin air after games.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
Described as a love letter to the ’80s classics that captivated a generation, the series was to be set in 1980 Montauk, Long Island, where a young boy vanishes into thin air.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2025
This is how the sales tax in L.A. County was increased by one-half percent in November 2024 to pay for more homelessness programs of the type that already have caused billions of tax dollars to vanish into thin air.
—Susan Shelley, Daily News, 9 Dec. 2025
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 12 Jan. 2026
But this year Ross became a ghost, vanishing into thin air after games.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
Described as a love letter to the ’80s classics that captivated a generation, the series was to be set in 1980 Montauk, Long Island, where a young boy vanishes into thin air.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2025
This is how the sales tax in L.A. County was increased by one-half percent in November 2024 to pay for more homelessness programs of the type that already have caused billions of tax dollars to vanish into thin air.
—Susan Shelley, Daily News, 9 Dec. 2025
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“Into thin air.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/into%20thin%20air. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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