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to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of
a lightning strike vaporized the tree
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Recent Examples of vaporized
Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
The hundreds of rats and mice were sick and had to be treated twice a day with vaporized medicine.
—Kelly Puente, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Nov. 2025
It is designed to test for vaporized tobacco, marijuana, nicotine products, and e-cigarette devices.
—Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Tony Hoffman, PC Magazine, 2 Apr. 2026
Green fireballs like the one Jenkins saw are often due to the presence of magnesium, which emits a bright blue-green light when heated and vaporized in the Earth's atmosphere, the museum said.
—ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026
In the spring of 1942, the team began testing its smoke generator, trying to determine how many gallons of oil had to be vaporized to create a smoke screen wide enough and dense enough to block visibility across miles.
—Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
Decades of military build-up have been vaporized in days.
—Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 7 Mar. 2026
The technical heart of the dispute lies in Py-GC-MS, a process in which samples are vaporized to identify molecules by weight.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
But in 2019, a fire tore through the sisters’ homes and vaporized all of Liway’s cash.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
These structures formed when high-speed impacts vaporized carbon from the solar wind and meteorites; as this gas cooled rapidly, local iron particles acted as catalysts, knitting the atoms into tubes rather than forming ordinary soot.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
So, will the soon-to-be received fresh bundles of cash be vaporized by inflation?
—Bruce Yandle, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
The fiery atmospheric reentries of satellites would be a source of pollution, too, dumping significant amounts of vaporized metal and plastic into our planet’s fragile upper atmosphere.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
The hundreds of rats and mice were sick and had to be treated twice a day with vaporized medicine.
—Kelly Puente, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Nov. 2025
It is designed to test for vaporized tobacco, marijuana, nicotine products, and e-cigarette devices.
—Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
Or this object, known by the prosaic designation C/2026 A1 (MAPS), could totally disintegrate, vaporized by the fierce heat of our star.
—Tony Hoffman, PC Magazine, 2 Apr. 2026
Green fireballs like the one Jenkins saw are often due to the presence of magnesium, which emits a bright blue-green light when heated and vaporized in the Earth's atmosphere, the museum said.
—ABC News, 24 Mar. 2026
In the spring of 1942, the team began testing its smoke generator, trying to determine how many gallons of oil had to be vaporized to create a smoke screen wide enough and dense enough to block visibility across miles.
—Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
Decades of military build-up have been vaporized in days.
—Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 7 Mar. 2026
The technical heart of the dispute lies in Py-GC-MS, a process in which samples are vaporized to identify molecules by weight.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
But in 2019, a fire tore through the sisters’ homes and vaporized all of Liway’s cash.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
These structures formed when high-speed impacts vaporized carbon from the solar wind and meteorites; as this gas cooled rapidly, local iron particles acted as catalysts, knitting the atoms into tubes rather than forming ordinary soot.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026
So, will the soon-to-be received fresh bundles of cash be vaporized by inflation?
—Bruce Yandle, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vaporized
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Kuwait’s emir dissolved parliament in May 2024 and embarked on a regulatory overhaul and citizenship crackdown.—
Kelsey Warner,
semafor.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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Ocean water contains dissolved salts, and when ice forms, most of these salts are pushed out of the crystal structure.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Mar. 2026
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While in the region, Curiosity recently utilized its onboard Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite, built to search for compounds of the element carbon that are associated with life and investigate ways in which these compounds are generated and destroyed in the Martian ecosphere.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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That investigation stemmed from a June 8, 1995, fire that destroyed a ValuJet DC-9 on a runway at Atlanta.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
21 Apr. 2026
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The City of Fort Lauderdale has been in need of a new city hall after the historic flooding of April 2023 ruined its old city hall.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2026
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Meanwhile, the everyday American who borrowed in good faith has been pursued, garnished and financially ruined when things go wrong, while the universities that pocketed the money walk away without consequence.—
Michael Carbonara,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Apr. 2026
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Manchester City await, a team Chelsea have not beaten for five years and who demolished them 3-0 at Stamford Bridge in the league just two weeks ago.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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At the facility, officials found several bodies in hazardous conditions inside the building that was later condemned and demolished by federal environmental regulators as a toxic waste site.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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She was spurred in part by the election of Kurt Waldheim as president of Austria in 1986; revelations of his Nazi past shattered the myth that the country had been an innocent victim of Hitler.—
Ben Davis,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Bullets shattered a glass refrigerator door behind Marquise, who fell to the ground right next to the store’s counter.—
Rebecca White,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Bavishi suggested popping a can of coconut milk in the fridge, letting the cream solidify on top, and skimming that off to use as a low-moisture replacement for the evaporated coconut milk.—
Beth Kracklauer,
Outside,
27 Feb. 2026
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Two cars were wrecked and two people suffered injuries in a crash on busy Irving Park Road in the neighborhood of the same name early Monday morning.—
Kris Habermehl,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Girls getting wrecked on prom night?—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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But following elite competition is nearly impossible, with subtle flicks and jabs practically invisible to the naked eye—and competitors hidden behind masks.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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Therefore, the researchers now plan to improve detection efficiency and push sensitivity even further, with the hope of identifying other ultra-rare isotopes that have so far remained invisible.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Vaporized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vaporized. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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