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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
Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
His vanishing is what kickstarted everything.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
The vanishing of a core rivalry — a pairing of teams whose matchups bring the NBA to a halt — has been one of the consequences of the NBA’s brief parity era.
—Jared Weiss, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2025
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
Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
Miami-Dade County commissioners cleared the way Thursday for a heavy-equipment dealer to build a sprawling new headquarters outside the county’s Urban Development Boundary, which was put in place decades ago to protect vanishing wetlands and farms.
—Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
As if the drought weren’t concerning enough, our anxieties are compounded by legislators’ inability to address the threat the vanishing lake poses or to provide the immediate attention the issue demands.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 22 Jan. 2026
For decades Shtok was known as the great disappearing act of Yiddish literature—a modernist story writer who blazed bright in the 1920s before vanishing from the literary scene and, it was assumed, dying young.
—Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
Our business life is vanishing.
—Elena Becatoros, Arkansas Online, 20 Jan. 2026
Christie’s disappearance doesn’t exactly match the plot of any of her stories, but there was plenty of source material in her books that was similar to her vanishing.
—Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 18 Jan. 2026
Concerns over inflation came to a head when the prices of basic goods such as cooking oil and chicken dramatically spiked, with some products vanishing from shelves altogether.
—Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett, who wandered the Amazon for 22 years at the beginning of the 20th century before vanishing without a trace, wrote that the breath of the anaconda stupefied its prey.
—Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
In the season 1 finale, it was revealed that Roman was an undercover FBI informant, which might have been the reason for his vanishing.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
His vanishing is what kickstarted everything.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
The vanishing of a core rivalry — a pairing of teams whose matchups bring the NBA to a halt — has been one of the consequences of the NBA’s brief parity era.
—Jared Weiss, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2025
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
Verb
Forced into 'impossible decisions' Sheila Brassel, a research director at Catalyst, said women's workforce participation has begun to lag because flexibility in the workplace is vanishing.
—Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
Miami-Dade County commissioners cleared the way Thursday for a heavy-equipment dealer to build a sprawling new headquarters outside the county’s Urban Development Boundary, which was put in place decades ago to protect vanishing wetlands and farms.
—Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
As if the drought weren’t concerning enough, our anxieties are compounded by legislators’ inability to address the threat the vanishing lake poses or to provide the immediate attention the issue demands.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 22 Jan. 2026
For decades Shtok was known as the great disappearing act of Yiddish literature—a modernist story writer who blazed bright in the 1920s before vanishing from the literary scene and, it was assumed, dying young.
—Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
Our business life is vanishing.
—Elena Becatoros, Arkansas Online, 20 Jan. 2026
Christie’s disappearance doesn’t exactly match the plot of any of her stories, but there was plenty of source material in her books that was similar to her vanishing.
—Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 18 Jan. 2026
Concerns over inflation came to a head when the prices of basic goods such as cooking oil and chicken dramatically spiked, with some products vanishing from shelves altogether.
—Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett, who wandered the Amazon for 22 years at the beginning of the 20th century before vanishing without a trace, wrote that the breath of the anaconda stupefied its prey.
—Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanishing
Noun
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Or erect a barrier fence to reduce the amount of salt exposure from snow removal equipment and ice melting products.—
Barbara Gillette,
The Spruce,
31 Jan. 2026
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Very cold air already in place will allow snow to accumulate quickly across the region, sticking to roads, bridges and untreated surfaces with little melting.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Fragmentation is not disappearing anytime soon, and the shift from multilateralism to minilateralism reflects a new reality.—
Vaishali Nigam Sinha,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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These giant bears hunt, mate and spend their days hanging out on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing as the climate warms.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
29 Jan. 2026
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His passing was duly eulogized by the Reagan Foundation and the Young America's Foundation at the Reagan Ranch.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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Mensah, a second-team All-ACC selection, had the second-best passing grade in the conference (85), trailing only FSU quarterback Thomas Castellanos.—
Adam Lichtenstein,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Data Privacy Week is one of those calendar moments that risks fading into the background.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The oil’s powerhouse formula has a number of benefits, including brightening skin and fading age spots.—
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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That could mean many more PBHs are in the final stages of evaporation today.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
23 Jan. 2026
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Additionally, if there is precipitation falling into the wedge, evaporation can further lower its temperature.—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Instead of requiring cooling systems that use large volumes of water like those on land, the network would rely on radiative cooling that occurs in space, which allows for the dissipation of heat.—
Bloomberg News,
Boston Herald,
31 Jan. 2026
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This tiny snail’s shell combines hardness, toughness and energy dissipation in a way that very few single-phase materials can.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Due to Tom’s disappearance, Claflin is largely absent outside of flashbacks that show the couple’s meet-cute in Jordan, where Alice was digging for artifacts and Tom distributed vaccines for a pro-refugee NGO called SOS Global.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
1 Feb. 2026
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A day later, there were news reports about her disappearance.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Vanishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanishing. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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