disappearing

present participle of disappear

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of disappearing The truck drives south, then west on Highway 46 through fields of almond trees and roses, before disappearing into an industrial zone near the farming center of Wasco. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026 The band works its way around the stage with drummer Lars Ulrich’s drum kits disappearing into its bowels and a different kit appearing at another vantage point. — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 19 Oct. 2026 But when people start disappearing, Charity becomes the final girl in her own real life slasher. — Rebekah Faubion, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2026 This seasonal pastoral journey, known as transhumance, defines a semi-nomadic way of life that is rapidly disappearing. — Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Oct. 2026 Desperately seeking Europe’s ‘own resources’ Still, the negotiations are gathering pace just as ambitions for the EU in an uncertain world are on the rise but room for fiscal maneuver in many countries is disappearing. — Lorne Cook, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 Short-term, month-to-month rentals (the kind that often show up on a rent roll in a town that runs on rotating crews) were disappearing. — Ken Lundin, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Skill game machines are disappearing from businesses and private clubs across Pennsylvania after lawmakers failed to pass legislation regulating them before the state's deadline. — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 John Wayne and Gary Cooper, like Ken-san, often played anachronistic loners from a disappearing Arcadia that was being destroyed by hard-nosed modernizers—greedy bankers, railway owners, big-city politicians. — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disappearing
Verb
  • Joan realizes that her mother’s vanishing meshes with a larger tapestry of tragedy that has plagued their family over the years.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026
  • As far as these online habits show, the sanctity of Sundays off may be vanishing as an always-on work culture takes over.
    — Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Fighting autocracy and inequality The Ford Foundation frames its new plan as its answer to rising autocracy, widening inequality, and fading public trust.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • In Brazil, Lula also faces fading support even among parts of his base as the economic backdrop looks different from the one that accompanied his first presidency.
    — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • As temperatures warm, more of Northern California’s water is set to arrive as rain instead of snow, with water running downstream instead of melting slowly into reservoirs as a stable water supply.
    — Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The Upper Basin, which includes Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, has tended to be more resilient as its groundwater benefits from melting snow coursing down the Rocky Mountains.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

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“Disappearing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disappearing. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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