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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
  • In the business world, there is extensive literature warning against this—companies that refuse to adapt to market needs go extinct.
    Pablo Listingart, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • What could possibly go wrong on such a slippery slope, where nothing remains sacred, tradition is going extinct and everything left is tacky and transactional?
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • She’s disappeared into history.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • And as if trying to recreate a defunct style of filmmaking wasn’t hard enough, Soderbergh also decided to be his own cinematographer and editor, going under the pseudonyms of Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Authorities have attributed the attacks to dissident factions of the defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), led by Iván Mordisco.
    Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 30 June 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
  • Skin irritation or rash from expired ingredients is also possible.
    Alex Vance, Parents, 10 July 2025
  • This minimizes losses from expired or unsold products and lowers risk by maintaining tighter control over merchandise.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025

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“Vanished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanished. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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