as in to melt (away)
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Recent Examples of fade (away)
Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
Nickel cornerback Kyler Gordon had seen it enough in practice to know what was coming — another fadeaway.
—Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
Hurley called a timeout ahead of the final possession of the half, where Demary missed a fadeaway midrange jumper and corralled his own offensive rebound beyond the 3-point line.
—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2026
Anthony Edwards became the third-youngest player in NBA history to reach 10,000 career points, when the Minnesota Timberwolves star swished a 13-foot fadeaway jumper from the baseline midway through the fourth quarter against Cleveland on Thursday night.
—CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Michael Jordan had his signature fadeaway jump shot.
—Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
Nickel cornerback Kyler Gordon had seen it enough in practice to know what was coming — another fadeaway.
—Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
Hurley called a timeout ahead of the final possession of the half, where Demary missed a fadeaway midrange jumper and corralled his own offensive rebound beyond the 3-point line.
—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2026
Anthony Edwards became the third-youngest player in NBA history to reach 10,000 career points, when the Minnesota Timberwolves star swished a 13-foot fadeaway jumper from the baseline midway through the fourth quarter against Cleveland on Thursday night.
—CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fade (away)
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Of particular concern is the end this year of federal pandemic relief funding, which for several years has helped prop up the budgets of all American cities — the evaporation of those funds will make the task of sustaining progress only more difficult.—
Katie Hill,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Feb. 2026
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Previously, this heat was dispensed into the atmosphere through evaporation cooling towers, but CERN's new plan is to put this waste heat to some use while improving the facilities environmental signature by way of what's called the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The cameras caught Casper hugging John Shuster in the immediate aftermath in what felt like a passing of the torch between the faces of the sport.—
Dane Mizutani,
Twin Cities,
10 Feb. 2026
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According to a death certificate released this week, the condition caused the untimely passing of actress Catherine O’Hara, the Schitt’s Creek and Home Alone star, on January 30 at age 71 in Los Angeles.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
10 Feb. 2026
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Researchers at the British Antarctic Survey have developed an artificial intelligence system that can automatically track icebergs throughout their entire lifecycle, from formation to fragmentation and melting, across oceans around the world.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Feb. 2026
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The city is this melting pot of people, and the après parties and all that stuff happening really celebrates the culture of the sport.—
Taylor Eisenhauer,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Vocal writing seems natural, although voices here sometimes vanished in lower registers.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Matter’s more ordinary building blocks, protons and neutrons, settled out of it as the universe expanded and cooled, and the strange stuff vanished, never to be seen again.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
6 Feb. 2026
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The sheets felt slightly softer after washing and drying them, and there were no snags, tears, loose threads, or color fading.—
Brandi Fuller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 Jan. 2026
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Turn jeans inside out, wash on a gentle cycle, and skip fabric softener to reduce fading and wear.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
29 Jan. 2026
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When a breakdown at a gas station ends with Whitney vanishing, police dismiss it as a runaway, but Megan knows better.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2026
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In the season 1 finale, it was revealed that Roman was an undercover FBI informant, which might have been the reason for his vanishing.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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Whether that’s $500 or $800, that kind of Red Sea premium will also evaporate, and carriers will look down at a challenge maintaining rates above a higher cost level.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Feb. 2026
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His lead in the race for the Republican nomination has all but evaporated.—
Rob Crilly,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Feb. 2026
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The reactor facilitates rapid heat dissipation, preventing the thermal runaway that typically degrades catalysts.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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Instead of requiring cooling systems that use large volumes of water like those on land, the network would rely on radiative cooling that occurs in space, which allows for the dissipation of heat.—
Bloomberg News,
Boston Herald,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Fade (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fade%20%28away%29. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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