as in extinct
no longer existing
the vanished tradition of the maypole as the center for May Day festivities
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as in disappeared
to cease to be visible
the house vanished into the fog as we drove away
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Recent Examples of vanished
Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Continue reading … MISSING IN ACTION – Congresswoman who quietly vanished from Capitol Hill has been living in a retirement facility.
—Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
But as the immediate prospects for democracy have all but vanished from China, his politics have shifted from reaction to reflection.
—Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
Tice, a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers, and other outlets, vanished at a checkpoint in a contested region west of Damascus in 2012, as the Syrian civil war escalated.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
As the show begins, an agent posted in Minsk has gotten drunk, crashed his car and been taken into custody at the police station-from which he's vanished without explanation.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
The aircraft vanished from radar screens somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam less than an hour after takeoff.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
And in that time, law enforcement has virtually vanished, the attorney Roni Pelli of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel told me.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
One by one, in the summer of 1984, teenage girls vanished off the streets of this historic town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Verb
Some visions of moral progress look forward to a world in which the in-group/out-group distinction has vanished.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Continue reading … MISSING IN ACTION – Congresswoman who quietly vanished from Capitol Hill has been living in a retirement facility.
—Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
But as the immediate prospects for democracy have all but vanished from China, his politics have shifted from reaction to reflection.
—Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
Tice, a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers, and other outlets, vanished at a checkpoint in a contested region west of Damascus in 2012, as the Syrian civil war escalated.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
As the show begins, an agent posted in Minsk has gotten drunk, crashed his car and been taken into custody at the police station-from which he's vanished without explanation.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
The aircraft vanished from radar screens somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam less than an hour after takeoff.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
And in that time, law enforcement has virtually vanished, the attorney Roni Pelli of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel told me.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
One by one, in the summer of 1984, teenage girls vanished off the streets of this historic town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanished
Adjective
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Deep-seafloor-dwelling foraminifera, which were far away from the surface and were able to keep feeding on the remains of dead organisms, were mostly fine, but nine out of 10 planktonic species went extinct.—
Tim Vernimmen,
JSTOR Daily,
19 June 2025
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Our species once coexisted for tens of thousands of years and interbred with both Denisovans and Neanderthals before the two went extinct.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
18 June 2025
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She’s disappeared into history.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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And yet, this unexpectedly addicting appetizer disappeared quickly from the buffet table, and everyone was bestowing compliments on me.—
Jill Schildhouse,
Southern Living,
12 Apr. 2025
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One is even housed in a former Old County Buffet, the now defunct all-you-can-eat restaurant chain which closed its last Illinois restaurant five years ago.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2025
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Six years ago, two school executives from the now defunct A3 charter school were embroiled in controversy.—
Windi Eklund,
Oc Register,
17 June 2025
Adjective
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So many firsts, gone, charred to ash, just remnants of an area that once represented Black prosperity and joy.—
Maya Richard-Craven,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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The original pioneers were mostly busy making non-hyperpop or gone: SOPHIE tragically died in 2021; 100 gecs spent years toiling to make their zany stadium-rock second album.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
3 Oct. 2024
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Tasks like taking out the trash, tossing expired items from the fridge and pantry, making the bed, and wiping down surfaces often will help maintain a clean house.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
14 June 2025
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The company’s claim that Lightfoot’s pandemic decree cost it millions comes despite the fact a Tribune investigation found the city issued more than 35,000 parking tickets during the time the mayor told motorists they wouldn’t get dinged for parking at expired meters.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2025
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