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
An ancient tongue — believed to be Europe’s oldest still in use — Basque endures where Etruscan and Iberian have vanished.
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Callum McLennan, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
All four victims had been ruthlessly stabbed to death before the attacker vanished through the kitchen’s sliding glass door and into the night.
—Ian Berry, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
But, in the sibling analysis, which compared siblings who were exposed to acetaminophen to siblings who were not, the association vanished.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.
—Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
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Callum McLennan, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
All four victims had been ruthlessly stabbed to death before the attacker vanished through the kitchen’s sliding glass door and into the night.
—Ian Berry, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
But, in the sibling analysis, which compared siblings who were exposed to acetaminophen to siblings who were not, the association vanished.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.
—Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 21 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 29 Sep. 2025.
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