disappearance

noun

Definition of disappearancenext
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as in loss

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as in departure

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Recent Examples of disappearance The series follows a private investigator who arrives in a small coastal town to investigate the disappearance of a young heir to a powerful fishery. — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2026 Struggling to fit in, Ranna becomes obsessed with a decade-old disappearance of a choir teacher and starts a podcast about the case. — Annika Pham, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026 From the Sri Lankan mother who refused to accept her son’s disappearance. — The Monitor's Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2026 In August 2018, the mysterious disappearance of pregnant Shanann Watts and her daughters Bella and Celeste shocked the town of Frederick, Colorado. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026 The 22-year-old emerged from the woods Wednesday evening after a six-day disappearance and knocked on the driver’s side window of a search-and-rescue cruiser. — Angie Orellana Hernandez, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026 Talarico’s opponent in the Senate race, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, has grilled the Democrat about his disappearance on social media in recent days. — Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 8 Oct. 2026 Noel's disappearance sparked an international investigation that led to the arrest of his mother, Cindy Rodriguez Singh, who fled to India with her husband and six other children shortly after investigators began searching for him. — Doug Myers, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 Mackenzie Crook’s meditative and melancholy comedy is about a man whose life has been on pause since his girlfriend’s disappearance, leading him to use alchemy to get answers. — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disappearance
  1. loss
  2. departure
  3. evaporation
  4. departing
  5. passing
  6. melting
  7. vanishing
Noun
  • Sports professionals expect some losses, and expect to learn from them.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
  • More than one in 10 Americans are taking a GLP-1 drug for weight loss, according to a recent Gallup analysis, and one in seven has taken them at some point.
    — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of loss
Noun
  • Hill’s departure marks the end of an extraordinary run in one of heavy metal’s defining bands.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Minervini’s departure at least temporarily ends his long run as a studio host/sports anchor in South Florida.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of departure
Noun
  • Those who would like to drain Powell point to the fact that 11% of the Colorado River’s water is lost to reservoir evaporation.
    — Story Hinckley, Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2026
  • When laid flat in overlapping layers, paper bags also help retain soil moisture by slowing evaporation and regulating soil temperature to protect plant roots.
    — SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of evaporation
Noun
  • Have your camera ready when arriving or departing, as the staff usually perform an entertaining song and dance in traditional costumes.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Kronberg said the aircraft landed safely but became disabled at the end of the runway, preventing other flights from arriving and departing.
    — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of departing
Noun
  • Dieffenbach was three for six for 43 passing yards, one touchdown and no turnovers.
    — Elias Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Madsen connected with nine different receivers for 23 completions, 238 passing yards and two touchdowns.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of passing
Noun
  • What’s less normal is how barren Colorado’s mountain peaks got this summer, with some melting completely.
    — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Subterranean effects reached 35 km (almost 22 miles) down, and included the melting an immense amount of rock.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of melting
Noun
  • The explosion of malice effaces them in different ways, and James traces the mechanisms of their vanishing, examining how a person’s life can be compressed into smaller and smaller spaces.
    — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Bearing witness to that vanishing is a rare and fleeting privilege.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
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