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vanished

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verb

past tense of vanish

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of vanished
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
  • Since its passing, not a single marine mammal species in U.S. waters has gone extinct, even as use of the ocean has increased.
    Ryan Green, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Meanwhile, pensions are largely extinct except in government, 401(k)s are too often spotty as replacements, and rent absorbs a huge chunk of paychecks for those without equity.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • She’s disappeared into history.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The ball literally disappeared for a couple of seconds.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Associated Press What To Know The Russian Foreign Ministry accused Washington of escalating tensions by testing, producing and moving systems once banned under the defunct Intermediate‑Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
    Sonam Sheth Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The owner of a defunct Leominster used car dealership cashed a nearly $1.4 million IRS refund check that wasn’t meant for him, federal prosecutors allege.
    Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 2 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • On April 13, 2024, while stopping a Detroit woman in a school parking lot in Melvindale for expired plates and no insurance, Furman allegedly tasered the woman while forcing her out of her vehicle.
    Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Food producers from Connecticut and nearby states send pallets of expired bread, popcorn, cereal and other products; they’re fed into the system, and the resulting feed is sold to New England farms.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2025

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“Vanished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanished. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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