as in disappeared
to cease to be visible
the image suddenly dematerialized, and once again we were staring at a blank screen
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Then the firm took its fee and disappeared.—
Alina Selyukh,
NPR,
25 Mar. 2026 -
Today, that sense of place has largely disappeared as a new generation of artists is treating the internet itself as source material.—
Keegan Brady,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
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The governor’s visitor log, a public record for decades, has vanished as well, the better to conceal who’s lobbying him.—
Martin Dyckman,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 Mar. 2026
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But for many Cubans any benefits afforded to them by the island’s socialist system vanished long ago.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN Money,
22 Mar. 2026
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The transition from agricultural employment to factory employment involved wrenching mass migration, the utter misery of the Great Depression (as well as other brutal recessions, now faded from collective memory), and the painful dealmaking of the New Deal.—
Annie Lowrey,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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The Italian school, which lacked rigor and involved many errors, quickly faded as Bourbaki’s influence spread.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Dematerialized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dematerialized. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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