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
According to classmates, the trio argued frequently in the months before Skylar vanished.
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Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 6 Mar. 2026
However, that money doesn’t just vanish.
—Nick Harris
march 6, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2026
In 2012, 16-year-old Skylar Neese vanished from her West Virginia home in the middle of the night.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026
By capturing organisms in extraordinary detail, resources like Antscan create a permanent, high-resolution record of life’s architecture—an anatomical time capsule that can be queried and revisited long after fragile specimens degrade or wild populations vanish.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026
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Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 6 Mar. 2026
However, that money doesn’t just vanish.
—Nick Harris
march 6, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2026
In 2012, 16-year-old Skylar Neese vanished from her West Virginia home in the middle of the night.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026
By capturing organisms in extraordinary detail, resources like Antscan create a permanent, high-resolution record of life’s architecture—an anatomical time capsule that can be queried and revisited long after fragile specimens degrade or wild populations vanish.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanish
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Nickelate thin films must be grown with atomic-level precision, otherwise their delicate electronic properties disappear.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Mar. 2026
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Your son, who has passed you and continued on, aptly makes his way through one of those ghost-tour groups and disappears from view.—
Addie Citchens,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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Three days later, Litmus Test faded to third place in his first start of the year, the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas.—
Jay Posner,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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What sympathy there may have been for a cornered, bruised Iranian regime among its neighbors has faded in the face of Tehran’s escalation.—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Vanish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanish. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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