as in to disappear
to cease to be visible
the house vanished into the fog as we drove away
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Recent Examples of vanish
With no official physical release, the series — starring Alicia Vikander as a Hollywood movie star making a project in Paris — could be effectively vanished from existence.
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Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
LaBarge frequently interrupts the telling to braid her narrative so tautly with those of others that their language blurs together, quotation marks vanishing, lines of demarcation eroding.
—Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
The tragedy has also caused her own power — the ability to harvest luck from a mysterious dimension known as the Otherside — to vanish.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
Energy costs, vanishing federal subsidies and an administration in Washington hostile to clean energy are giving officials reasons to retreat from efforts to deal with climate change and the political cover to do so.
—Andres Clarens, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
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Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
LaBarge frequently interrupts the telling to braid her narrative so tautly with those of others that their language blurs together, quotation marks vanishing, lines of demarcation eroding.
—Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
The tragedy has also caused her own power — the ability to harvest luck from a mysterious dimension known as the Otherside — to vanish.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
Energy costs, vanishing federal subsidies and an administration in Washington hostile to clean energy are giving officials reasons to retreat from efforts to deal with climate change and the political cover to do so.
—Andres Clarens, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanish
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Maybe your flight was canceled, your luggage disappeared, you got stranded overseas, missed a cruise departure or learned a hard lesson the hard way.—
Josh Rivera,
USA Today,
21 June 2026
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But bikes like this are a reminder of why the lightweight enduro class refuses to disappear.—
Utkarsh Sood
June 20,
New Atlas,
20 June 2026
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Just faded to a dark backdrop of the forgotten.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 June 2026
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After Flowering As soon as the blooms fade, cut the flower stalk at the stalk base on an angle using sharp pruners, says Eric Nieusma, co-owner of Maine Hill Farm.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
18 June 2026
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“Vanish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanish. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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