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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
Mason Leath,
ABC News,
19 June 2026
Watching Moon and this better daughter, Stevie fantasizes about walking out of the store and vanishing.
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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.
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Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026
That’s followed by periods of contemplation, energized wakefulness, and, purportedly, a vanishing of withdrawal symptoms.
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Shayla Love,
The Atlantic,
24 May 2026
Sontag claimed to have forgotten about him, but his vanishing is better explained on writerly grounds.
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Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
Until Earhart disappeared on a round-the-world flight in 1937, New York judge Joseph Crater was the most renowned vanishing act.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
Perhaps that sudden ellipsis – the vanishing of a crisis that nearly tore the alliance to shreds weeks earlier – was gift enough.
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Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
15 Feb. 2026
When a breakdown at a gas station ends with Whitney vanishing, police dismiss it as a runaway, but Megan knows better.
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Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2026
Literary Hub,
18 June 2026
Concerns of a serial killer first emerged in late 2010 after the disappearance of Shannan Gilbert, a 23-year-old woman who placed panicked 911 calls from the Oak Beach community before vanishing into the surrounding marsh.
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Michael Ruiz , Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2026
Energy costs, vanishing federal subsidies and an administration in Washington hostile to clean energy are giving officials reasons to retreat from efforts to deal with climate change and the political cover to do so.
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Andres Clarens,
The Conversation,
17 June 2026
Back in 1966, England was the host country when the Jules Rimet Trophy, the original trophy of the World Cup, went missing just months before the tournament was slated to begin, vanishing during an exhibition at the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster.
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Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
The body of a 5-year-old girl who was swept into the ocean with her family in Laguna Beach before vanishing in dangerously high surf has been recovered.
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Jazmin Alvarado,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
His spectral like figure seems to rise from the corpse, approaching the camera’s lens before vanishing.
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Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
11 June 2026
That, however, turned out to be a clever teaser, with the YouTube version promptly vanishing ahead of the album’s proper release.
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Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
8 June 2026
The hours devoted to social studies in schools are shrinking, and survey courses in American history are vanishing from college campuses.
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Yoni Appelbaum,
The Atlantic,
8 June 2026
Noun
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.
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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
Sontag claimed to have forgotten about him, but his vanishing is better explained on writerly grounds.
—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
Until Earhart disappeared on a round-the-world flight in 1937, New York judge Joseph Crater was the most renowned vanishing act.
—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
Perhaps that sudden ellipsis – the vanishing of a crisis that nearly tore the alliance to shreds weeks earlier – was gift enough.
—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
15 Feb. 2026
When a breakdown at a gas station ends with Whitney vanishing, police dismiss it as a runaway, but Megan knows better.
—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
LaBarge frequently interrupts the telling to braid her narrative so tautly with those of others that their language blurs together, quotation marks vanishing, lines of demarcation eroding.
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Literary Hub,
18 June 2026
Concerns of a serial killer first emerged in late 2010 after the disappearance of Shannan Gilbert, a 23-year-old woman who placed panicked 911 calls from the Oak Beach community before vanishing into the surrounding marsh.
—
Michael Ruiz , Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2026
Energy costs, vanishing federal subsidies and an administration in Washington hostile to clean energy are giving officials reasons to retreat from efforts to deal with climate change and the political cover to do so.
—
Andres Clarens,
The Conversation,
17 June 2026
Back in 1966, England was the host country when the Jules Rimet Trophy, the original trophy of the World Cup, went missing just months before the tournament was slated to begin, vanishing during an exhibition at the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster.
—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
The body of a 5-year-old girl who was swept into the ocean with her family in Laguna Beach before vanishing in dangerously high surf has been recovered.
—
Jazmin Alvarado,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
His spectral like figure seems to rise from the corpse, approaching the camera’s lens before vanishing.
—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
11 June 2026
That, however, turned out to be a clever teaser, with the YouTube version promptly vanishing ahead of the album’s proper release.
—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
8 June 2026
The hours devoted to social studies in schools are shrinking, and survey courses in American history are vanishing from college campuses.
—
Yoni Appelbaum,
The Atlantic,
8 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanishing
Noun
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The city’s Centennial Olympic Park has become an international melting pot of fans, all sharing a mutual passion for the Beautiful Game.
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Fan Fest has become a melting pot alongside the bars.
Verb
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The report said witnesses claimed that the airplane lost altitude before regaining it, then flew at treetop height and turned to the right before disappearing from their view.
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Now many of those developmental layers are disappearing.
Noun
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Since her passing, Sonoma County experienced the most destructive wildfires in California history in 2017, only for another, more destructive fire to surpass it a year later.
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Both works in tandem poetically evoke the passing of an older generation’s spirit into their descendants.
Verb
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Their self-cleaning nature means blooms drop naturally after fading, eliminating tedious deadheading.
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Halsey and her fans’ outrage over an old album review is showing no signs of fading.
Noun
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Mixsoon Bean Collagen Hydrogel Mask Unlike traditional cotton or cellulose sheet masks, Mixsoon's Bean Collagen Hydrogel Mask molds closely to the skin, helping minimize evaporation and maximize ingredient absorption.
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Plug-ins, by contrast, rely on heat or evaporation at a single outlet and scent only the air within a limited radius around the device.
Noun
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By allowing airflow to travel through the structure, heat dissipation increases by 91%, and reduces surface temperatures by 10%, so performance isn't compromised.
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These cooling elements provide an additional heat dissipation pathway from the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) package.
Noun
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Tapson had an alibi, however, that cleared him of Carla’s disappearance, according to the Grand Forks Herald.
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Green declined to say whether foul play was suspected in her disappearance.
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“Vanishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanishing. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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