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to cease to be visible
the stranger disappeared into the mists, never to be seen again
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Recent Examples of disappeared
Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
After Brown disappeared, the owner of the bakery, Alice Lombardi, told CBS News that customers had come into the store and cried.
—Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
What is clear is that a lot of money has disappeared from people's food budgets, and anti-hunger advocates say that food banks alone will not be able to make up the difference.
—Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
By morning, the heater was replaced, and the thermometer, which one employee said had reached at least a hundred and ten degrees, disappeared.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
The injury-prone tag that trailed Tanev during his time with the Vancouver Canucks disappeared in recent years.
—Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
That environment has almost disappeared now.
—Gavin J Blair, HollywoodReporter, 2 Nov. 2025
The resilience that disappeared north of the border was back.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
The film asserts itself as the remaining record of the filmmakers, who disappeared; what was then an eerie idea is now an unnerving reality.
—The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
Aims of the science include learning how the oceans and magnetic field of Venus disappeared, and how plate tectonics changed the terrain.
—Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
After Brown disappeared, the owner of the bakery, Alice Lombardi, told CBS News that customers had come into the store and cried.
—Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
What is clear is that a lot of money has disappeared from people's food budgets, and anti-hunger advocates say that food banks alone will not be able to make up the difference.
—Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
By morning, the heater was replaced, and the thermometer, which one employee said had reached at least a hundred and ten degrees, disappeared.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
The injury-prone tag that trailed Tanev during his time with the Vancouver Canucks disappeared in recent years.
—Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
That environment has almost disappeared now.
—Gavin J Blair, HollywoodReporter, 2 Nov. 2025
The resilience that disappeared north of the border was back.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
The film asserts itself as the remaining record of the filmmakers, who disappeared; what was then an eerie idea is now an unnerving reality.
—The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disappeared
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The most famous came in 1911, when Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from its frame—stolen by Italian decorator Vincenzo Peruggia and missing for more than two years before resurfacing in Florence.—
Barney Henderson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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The flow of migrants that kept Vargas and other raft pilots here busy for years, surging during the Biden administration, has vanished.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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Heat decreases the amount of dissolved oxygen in water.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
22 Sep. 2025
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This was when Earth’s oceans witnessed an oceanic anoxic event, where vast areas became severely depleted of dissolved oxygen.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Aug. 2025
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Seeking justice, centuries later Though the frenzy surrounding witchcraft in England faded in the decades following the Maidstone trial, and all laws criminalizing witchcraft have long since been repealed, the convictions of those women – and hundreds like them – still stand.—
James Frater,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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That quirk of the JWST never faded, as the telescope naturally cocoons its targets in only the most deserving frames.—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Disappeared.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disappeared. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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