as in to disappear
to cease to be visible
the house vanished into the fog as we drove away
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Recent Examples of vanish
As the videos are projected onto the paper, the strings seem to vanish, leaving the paper to appear suspended in air.
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Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Today’s tools are still far from fully capturing the extent and complexity of Earth’s biodiversity, and much of that could vanish before anyone catalogs it.
—Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2025
As a child in Cuba, Mike Fernandez watched as his teachers were replaced with government instructors, books vanished from classroom shelves and ultimately, Communist Party officials took over his dad's tiny sandwich stand.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
Almost every company, save Cisco, that was in networking either blew up then and disappeared or hung on but kept losing money and then vanished.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
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Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Today’s tools are still far from fully capturing the extent and complexity of Earth’s biodiversity, and much of that could vanish before anyone catalogs it.
—Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2025
As a child in Cuba, Mike Fernandez watched as his teachers were replaced with government instructors, books vanished from classroom shelves and ultimately, Communist Party officials took over his dad's tiny sandwich stand.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
Almost every company, save Cisco, that was in networking either blew up then and disappeared or hung on but kept losing money and then vanished.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
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That dock is just outside the disappearing glass walls of the ground-floor space.—
Sandra Barrera,
Oc Register,
27 Sep. 2025
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The pilot disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, while attempting to become the first woman to fly across the globe.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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The present is always coming at us so hard and fast that the unexamined past fades more from consciousness in the echo chamber of the now.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
27 Sep. 2025
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Nobody buys an Alfa Romeo to fade into the crowd.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Vanish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanish. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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