Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gone (away)
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Then the firm took its fee and disappeared.—
Alina Selyukh,
NPR,
25 Mar. 2026 -
Today, that sense of place has largely disappeared as a new generation of artists is treating the internet itself as source material.—
Keegan Brady,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Cylinders of fluid gas, which power everything from taxicabs to cooking appliances, vanished from many distributors.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Partial remains found on a California beach four years ago have been identified as those of a former banker who vanished in 1999.—
Minyvonne Burke,
NBC news,
30 Mar. 2026
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Netflix’s domineering presence, one that permeated every corner of a typically sacred day at the ballpark, had mercifully evaporated.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Demand for the vaccine had evaporated.—
David Blumenthal,
STAT,
24 Mar. 2026
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The transition from agricultural employment to factory employment involved wrenching mass migration, the utter misery of the Great Depression (as well as other brutal recessions, now faded from collective memory), and the painful dealmaking of the New Deal.—
Annie Lowrey,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
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The Italian school, which lacked rigor and involved many errors, quickly faded as Bourbaki’s influence spread.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
25 Mar. 2026
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The Hiram community is coming together to lay out concerns and solutions after a state senate bill called on the city to be dissolved.—
Monique John,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Late last year, the administration essentially dissolved the team dedicated to criminal tax enforcement, dividing responsibility among a number of other offices and divisions.—
Avi Asher-Schapiro,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Gone (away).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gone%20%28away%29. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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