as in disappearing
to cease to be visible
the house vanished into the fog as we drove away
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Recent Examples of vanishing
Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2025
The literary thriller charts the disappearance of a girl from an upstate New York summer camp — and links it to the mysterious vanishing of her brother years earlier.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
This kind of waste, activists say, is contributing to the vanishing of the Great Salt Lake, which three years ago reached a record, concerning low.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Eric Markowitz, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
The Kirkland Signature Butter Cinnamon Sugar Loaf, first spotted as early as 2017, has developed a reputation for vanishing from shelves for long stretches, leaving customers to wonder if it was discontinued or simply seasonal.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
This mindset leads to silent burnout, broken health and brilliant people quietly vanishing from the workforce.
—Anastasia Paruntseva, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Demerzel shields the embryo with her body, and both are incinerated, vanishing in a white-hot instant, love and code consumed together.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
He's Sofia's mobster husband who starts out as a suspect in Lester’s death before suddenly vanishing.
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
What follows is a crusade of detours, espionage and a paranoid struggle to preserve a vanishing world — and the only home he’s ever known.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
Glaciers across High Mountain Asia are disappearing at an alarming rate, with more than 22 gigatons of ice vanishing each year, which is roughly equal to the volume of nine million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
Instead of just the solar disk vanishing, the entire corona disappeared.
—Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2025
The literary thriller charts the disappearance of a girl from an upstate New York summer camp — and links it to the mysterious vanishing of her brother years earlier.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
This kind of waste, activists say, is contributing to the vanishing of the Great Salt Lake, which three years ago reached a record, concerning low.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
That kind of discovery is vanishing.
—Eric Markowitz, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
The Kirkland Signature Butter Cinnamon Sugar Loaf, first spotted as early as 2017, has developed a reputation for vanishing from shelves for long stretches, leaving customers to wonder if it was discontinued or simply seasonal.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
This mindset leads to silent burnout, broken health and brilliant people quietly vanishing from the workforce.
—Anastasia Paruntseva, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Demerzel shields the embryo with her body, and both are incinerated, vanishing in a white-hot instant, love and code consumed together.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Grey’s son, Loren Grey, restored his father’s original ending in the novel’s 1982 Pocket Books reprint, but the vanishing mythos remains intact, with the last of the tribe wistfully following Curtis’s Navajo into the temporal graveyard of the past.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
He's Sofia's mobster husband who starts out as a suspect in Lester’s death before suddenly vanishing.
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
What follows is a crusade of detours, espionage and a paranoid struggle to preserve a vanishing world — and the only home he’s ever known.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025
Glaciers across High Mountain Asia are disappearing at an alarming rate, with more than 22 gigatons of ice vanishing each year, which is roughly equal to the volume of nine million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanishing
Verb
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Satellite imagery and field surveys show entire farming communities disappearing because their groundwater sources failed.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, 200 kilometers away in the Syrian desert, a Bedouin family shares their daily life with Danielle, an intimate archive of a disappearing world.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The wooden gate at U Fandy is on the verge of melting.—
Zuzana Říhová,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
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There’s a traditional idea of the United States as a melting pot, in which immigrant groups assimilate into an unchanging national culture.—
Laura Clawson,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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That combo typically signals bearish pressure is fading and a potential trend shift is forming.—
Nishant Pant,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2025
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Glitter’s dusty shadow, fading into the lower part of the brow bone, brought out the moody hue on the lips.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Garrett James, Corona del Mar, WR The senior impressed at the Battle at the Beach passing tournament in July, and hasn’t slowed down.—
Dan Albano,
Oc Register,
26 Sep. 2025
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This season, Sorsby has 655 passing yards, eight touchdowns and one interception.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Instead of relying on environmentally damaging methods like open-pit mining or evaporation ponds, the firm is now deploying a process known as direct lithium extraction (DLE) from underground brine.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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Humans sweat to cool themselves down through the process of evaporation.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Shortcomings, however, were noted in heat dissipation, battery life, and the single rear camera.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
22 Sep. 2025
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Using cutting-edge metals for enhanced stiffness and heat dissipation, this most recent version represents a significant generational change.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As the mystery clouded his disappearance, however, Newton-John fell in love, marrying businessman John Easterling in 2008.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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Rohnert Park police are still investigating Wu’s disappearance and ask anyone with information to call Detective Ashley Freyer at 707-588-3513.—
Madison Smalstig,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Vanishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanishing. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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