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fadeaway

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Noun
Instead, the Lakers superstar pulled up straight over the top of Bryant’s outstretched arm, dropping a fadeaway jumper softly through the net. Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026 Garland landed a 20-foot turnaround fadeaway jumper followed by a midrange jumper by Leonard to regain the momentum and help the Clippers take a 59-45 lead into halftime. Janis Carr, Oc Register, 26 Mar. 2026 Arizona, the team who ran through the whole conference, didn’t really have a problem with anybody, needed a Hail Mary fadeaway to beat us. Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 Mar. 2026 After Brunson missed another fadeaway, Podziemski went or the pullup off-the-dribble 3-pointer with under 24 seconds remaining and missed. Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fade (away)
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fade (away)
Noun
  • Many fuel storage tanks utilize floating roofs that move up and down on the surface of the liquid to reduce evaporation and toxic air emissions.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • Yet with the evaporation of what once seemed like a bottomless pit of money from the Saudis’ sovereign Public Investment Fund, O’Neil and his team have not finalized a business plan that could sustain LIV into the future.
    Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 5 May 2026
Noun
  • Pavia was named the SEC Offensive Player of the Year and won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm for best upperclassman quarterback after throwing for 3,539 passing yards and 29 touchdowns, both of which are single-season school records, to give the Commodores their first-ever 10-win season.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Within 20 minutes of the storm passing, help became available, said Austin Nickman.
    Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The main contributor to rising sea levels is the melting of glaciers as the oceans continue to warm.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • Tourism to Antarctica is surging as visitors rush to see the melting continent, with over 80,000 visitors in 2024 and projections of up to 400,000 annually within the next decade.
    Sam McNeil, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
Verb
  • This can actually be taken too far—4 or 5 big dashes and the character of the genever all but vanishes, while only one dash and the genever character could be too strong for those unacclimated to its malty idiosyncrasies.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 9 May 2026
  • If the black hole vanishes, what happens to all the information trapped inside it?
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • Best sun-protective shampoo This OGX formula has a UVA/UVB filter blend that slows premature fading, especially with prolonged exposure to the sun.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • Plus, there’s a powder coating that prevents rust and fading.
    Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Sontag claimed to have forgotten about him, but his vanishing is better explained on writerly grounds.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Until Earhart disappeared on a round-the-world flight in 1937, New York judge Joseph Crater was the most renowned vanishing act.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Democrats’ jubilation over the prospect of claiming four new Virginia House seats evaporated on Friday, cementing a new GOP advantage in the mid-decade congressional redistricting war.
    Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 8 May 2026
  • Our protoplanetary disk has long since evaporated, as has any trace of a circumstellar debris disk.
    Big Think, Big Think, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • Brembo says the discs have been designed for rapid heat dissipation, while the mineral oil's viscosity remains stable across a wide range of temperatures.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 1 May 2026
  • To come up with its data, Turbli analyzed eddy dissipation rates, which categorizes turbulence scores into light, moderate, moderate/severe, severe, and extreme.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 21 Apr. 2026

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“Fade (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fade%20%28away%29. Accessed 12 May. 2026.

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