disappearing

present participle of disappear

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of disappearing From whimsical Halloween accents at MacKenzie-Childs to seasonal steals at QVC and best-selling fall decor finds on Amazon, August is one of the best times to shop before inventory starts disappearing closer to October. Kasey Caminiti, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026 Now, a collection of photographs taken as that era was disappearing is bringing some of those families back into view. Brian Unger, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026 Those methods give scammers a better chance of disappearing with your money. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026 By the end of the year, McDonnell had hightailed it out of the country with her husband, the majority of the funds disappearing with her. Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2026 Videos from nearby observers captured the rocket disappearing behind thick smoke and debris. Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026 That’s an 8% decline over those five years, with one in every 13 farms in the region disappearing. Charlotte Observer, 10 Aug. 2026 That’s because at the same time jobs were disappearing, the labor force itself was shrinking by 264,000. Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2026 Africa is warming faster than the global average, and a UN climate report said that Mount Kenya’s glaciers are disappearing particularly fast, losing more than half their area in the last decade. Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disappearing
Verb
  • The proof relied on certain sequences vanishing to zero and referenced the group’s 2009 paper.
    Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026
  • One week after Connecticut reserved $500 million from last year’s surplus to potentially replace vanishing federal dollars for human services, surging revenues already have replenished much of the state’s coffers.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Clip the plant right below the fading flowers and just above where leaves are.
    Mallory Carra, The Spruce, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The 20th century and its musicians keep fading away — but Rush came back.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Known as the lifeblood of the Southwest, the Colorado River starts in the Rocky Mountains, fed by melting snowpack, and ends in the Gulf of California in Mexico.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
  • According to these simulations, the sample would start melting at its surfaces around 1,085°C (1,985°F).
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026

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“Disappearing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disappearing. Accessed 18 Aug. 2026.

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