as in to vanish
to cease to be visible
the stranger disappeared into the mists, never to be seen again
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Recent Examples of disappear
Mosasaurs disappeared, along with the dinosaurs, when an asteroid collided with Earth some 66 million years ago.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
This place that hosts monster truck jams and Disney on Ice disappears.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
That’s one source of dramatic tension, especially since the factory also has to worry about immigration raids and workers disappearing.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2025
If gate donations continue to decline, street festivals will continue to shrink or simply disappear.
—Pamela Maass, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2025
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
This place that hosts monster truck jams and Disney on Ice disappears.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
That’s one source of dramatic tension, especially since the factory also has to worry about immigration raids and workers disappearing.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2025
If gate donations continue to decline, street festivals will continue to shrink or simply disappear.
—Pamela Maass, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for disappear
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disappear
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But if the barrier is breached, protection vanishes, and the note’s return moves in tandem with the underlying asset, meaning that the client assumes a 1:1 loss.—
Sergei Klebnikov,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The Yorktown vanished about 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu, and was rediscovered by a U.S. Navy and National Geographic expedition in 1998.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
23 Apr. 2025
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First, there was a drip-drip-drip of crisis: as costs everywhere rose, city, state, and federal monies faded away once COVID-era bailout efforts came to an end.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2025
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He’s got a big smile and that Generation Z vibe, maybe a freshly cut fade every three to four weeks.—
Cory Mull,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Disappear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disappear. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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