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vanishing

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verb

present participle of vanish

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of vanishing
Noun
The explosion of malice effaces them in different ways, and James traces the mechanisms of their vanishing, examining how a person’s life can be compressed into smaller and smaller spaces. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 Bearing witness to that vanishing is a rare and fleeting privilege. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2026 The vanishing of any craft is a tragedy to all who prefer the existence of a thing to its opposite, but restorative art represents more than just a niche domain of aesthetic achievement or a macabre postmortem racket. — John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026 That question, once unimaginable, has become urgent as climate change shrinks the country’s glaciers to the vanishing point. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 July 2026 Upon driving home from work on the afternoon of Denise's vanishing, her husband Nathan Lee found their children, 2-year-old Noah and 6-month-old Adam, alone in the same crib. — Mason Leath, ABC News, 19 June 2026 Watching Moon and this better daughter, Stevie fantasizes about walking out of the store and vanishing. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026 There were those e-books, the vanishing of book review sections and book reviews from newspapers, struggles of independent bookstores in the face of Amazon and, most recently, the invasion of AI, with its Claude, Perplexity, ChatGPT and Gemini with their seductive and threatening ways. — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026 That’s followed by periods of contemplation, energized wakefulness, and, purportedly, a vanishing of withdrawal symptoms. — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
Verb
Along with Max, Erica advocated for a charity stamp to benefit vanishing species and has been vocal about LGBTQ+ visibility at baseball games. — Madeleine Janz, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2026 If live sports are the only thing preventing the bundle from vanishing outright, a stable virtual MVPD market has gone a long way toward moderating the overall losses in the pay-TV space. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 23 Sep. 2026 The rapidly approaching future and vanishing past are all around her, which Horgan embodies beautifully in a brief but wrenching scene when Ruari first leaves for school. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2026 In a union hall near Youngstown, retirees describe decades of vanishing factory jobs as Sherrod Brown bets economic anger, war in Iran fallout and AI data centers can fuel his Senate comeback. — Joey Cappelletti, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 But these communal destinations are slowly vanishing from American life. — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026 The vanishing New York chronicled in the blogs of the mid-aughts has mostly vanished, NYU has colonized large swaths of downtown, and a populace struggling to afford the crushing price of housing has arisen in its wake. — David Freedlander, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026 Before Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth took the reins in this long-running franchise to do battle over Earth’s vanishing resources, Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy navigated those same roads in Furiosa’s War Rig. — Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2026 For two years, some of the loudest voices on AI have spoken on white-collar layoffs, vanishing entry-level jobs, and a generation of graduates shut out. — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanishing
Noun
  • The quicker melting changes the usual flow of water through valleys and into the lake, compounding the challenges.
    — Silvia Console Battilana, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Somehow, though, the melting down of that possibility made our own world seem smaller.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The truck drives south, then west on Highway 46 through fields of almond trees and roses, before disappearing into an industrial zone near the farming center of Wasco.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The band works its way around the stage with drummer Lars Ulrich’s drum kits disappearing into its bowels and a different kit appearing at another vantage point.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 19 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The Horned Frogs completed five explosive passing plays against a Baylor secondary that ranked second in the Big 12 in pass defense efficiency.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Bachmeier used a combination of efficient passing and tough running to put the Irish on their heels early.
    — John Coon, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Fighting autocracy and inequality The Ford Foundation frames its new plan as its answer to rising autocracy, widening inequality, and fading public trust.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • In Brazil, Lula also faces fading support even among parts of his base as the economic backdrop looks different from the one that accompanied his first presidency.
    — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Dry eye disease is tied to excessive tear evaporation or inflammation on the eye’s surface.
    — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Ask whether your symptoms point to tear evaporation, the mechanism Miebo targets, per the Flow Space report on Andrews’s diagnosis, or to the inflammation that led Bowen’s doctor to prescribe Xiidra.
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 19 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • If not the margin of error, this could be down to thermal management, as the XPS Googlebook is the smallest and lightest of the lineup, leaving less room for cooling hardware and heat dissipation than the HP model.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The years that followed were plagued by stagnation and dissipation of any peace process, regular wars with Hamas, and a heavily nationalist government in Israel.
    — Dahlia Scheindlin, Time, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Other theories about Madeleine’s disappearance include a botched robbery that resulted in her murder or an abduction by human traffickers.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Taken together, the lack of clarity surrounding his disappearance last season, the pre-draft reporting, and the conflicting expectations surrounding his current injury have naturally raised questions about his latest absence.
    — Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026

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“Vanishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanishing. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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