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Recent Examples of disappearance
Three months after Jan’s disappearance, authorities finally found Berchtold.
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Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
Robot Rose then meets a lounge singer whose disappearance draws him into a conspiracy.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Citing Egyptian media, the AP reported that the painting was discovered missing in May, but its disappearance was not announced until this week.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Humans have had an impact on biodiversity as far back as 130,000 years ago, with the disappearance of mammoths and giant sloths—and extinction has continued in our wake as the human race spread across the globe.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Michniewicz also noted that Rice told him something alarming before his disappearance.
—Mason Leath, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2025
The Philadelphia Police Department’s homicide division is leading the investigation into Scott’s disappearance with assistance from the FBI’s Violent Crime Task Force.
—Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Officials previously said Scott told family members prior to her disappearance that someone was harassing her via phone, though Toczylowski declined to comment on whether King was the individual.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
The show begins with the disappearance of a boy named Will (Noah Schnapp).
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
Robot Rose then meets a lounge singer whose disappearance draws him into a conspiracy.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Citing Egyptian media, the AP reported that the painting was discovered missing in May, but its disappearance was not announced until this week.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Humans have had an impact on biodiversity as far back as 130,000 years ago, with the disappearance of mammoths and giant sloths—and extinction has continued in our wake as the human race spread across the globe.
—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Michniewicz also noted that Rice told him something alarming before his disappearance.
—Mason Leath, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2025
The Philadelphia Police Department’s homicide division is leading the investigation into Scott’s disappearance with assistance from the FBI’s Violent Crime Task Force.
—Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Officials previously said Scott told family members prior to her disappearance that someone was harassing her via phone, though Toczylowski declined to comment on whether King was the individual.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
The show begins with the disappearance of a boy named Will (Noah Schnapp).
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disappearance
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But more important to the story than the autobiographical details, which in any case are swallowed up by the vortex of fiction, is the devastating loss of meaning that accompanies the death of a child.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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For midlife patients, that often means managing menopause symptoms, bone loss and metabolic changes brought on by hormone therapy.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
21 Oct. 2025
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The infant first detecting maternal absence, the pet abandoned in an alley, the friend suddenly iced out have all felt the sudden departure of someone who was expected to be there.—
Anna Holmes,
The Atlantic,
20 Oct. 2025
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The blues poem is frequently poised at the moment of departure, the train pulling away from the station, a life left behind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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Because the Depression would hold a lot of water — 290 mi3 (1,200 km3), or about 30% the volume of the Grand Canyon — filling it would reduce worldwide ocean levels by 3 millimeters, and its constant evaporation would slow the rise of ocean levels by up to 6%.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
17 Oct. 2025
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Much of the area was historically used as industrial salt farms, as evidenced by the rusty-red evaporation ponds still visible by air.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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At Windsor International Airport, the terminal was nearly empty because there were no flights immediately arriving or departing, airport President Mark Galvin said.—
Martin Goillandeau,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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How much of the two presidents Alaskans will be able to see beyond their aircraft arriving and departing is unclear.—
Al Weaver,
The Hill,
14 Aug. 2025
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The magnitude of his passing is of epic proportions, and beyond comprehension.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
17 Oct. 2025
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Rodgers needed 116 passing yards to pass Roethlisberger and cruised past him with a 15-yard connection with Jaylen Warren in the second quarter.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
17 Oct. 2025
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Plastic containers in particular pose of risk of melting and even leaking potentially harmful chemicals into your food if heated.—
Brittany Lubeck,
Verywell Health,
20 Oct. 2025
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If Michael Jackson moonwalked so that Prince could show us the face of God with his brain-melting 2007 set, the NFL’s reaction to Fox’s inspired bit of devilry set the stage for the league’s eventual takeover of the American psyche.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Instead of just the solar disk vanishing, the entire corona disappeared.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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The literary thriller charts the disappearance of a girl from an upstate New York summer camp — and links it to the mysterious vanishing of her brother years earlier.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Disappearance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disappearance. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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