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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
  • Subterranean effects reached 35 km (almost 22 miles) down, and included the melting an immense amount of rock.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026
  • This melting pot approach came to the life in the collection, which centered on sexy sandals and eye-catching details, from bows to jewelry.
    — Katie Abel, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Worried about your package disappearing from your porch this holiday season?
    — Savannah Sicurella, AJC.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • But Week 4 brought an especially jarring wave, with stars and indispensable starters disappearing from game after game, giving teams an early lesson in contingency planning.
    — Rick Maese, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Thanks to sticky coverage in the secondary, TCU held BYU quarterback Bear Bachmeier to the worst throwing game of his career, as the sophomore managed just 62 passing yards.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Reynolds set a career high with 295 passing yards, but that was because the Hurricanes forced the Tigers to largely abandon the ground attack.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Fixed on a mobile rig that will at times careen and whoosh across the stage when not otherwise holding on Winter, Anderson’s camera catches the expressionism and chiaroscuro of stage lights illuminating and fading off the singer’s face.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2026
  • But hopes of winning the two states have been fading, and the GOP is increasingly focused on playing defense elsewhere with five weeks until the midterm elections.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • When laid flat in overlapping layers, paper bags also help retain soil moisture by slowing evaporation and regulating soil temperature to protect plant roots.
    — SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 27 Sep. 2026
  • That evaporation means more moisture in the sky in some areas which can lead to more rain.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • And that’s where the groundswell of the past few weeks isn’t just another temporary dissipation of some angry energy.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The Manushya Foundation, a human rights group that has previously assisted other Laotian asylum seekers, reported Khieo Lapchanh's disappearance to the Thai police.
    — Shibani Mahtani, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026
  • As an example, what will be the times and altitude for the disappearance of Jupiter as viewed from Memphis, Tennessee?
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Vanishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanishing. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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