dematerialize

The lively canvas, hardly an illustration of an event, employs light-reflective silver and golden-brown metallic paints applied in vast fields of paisley-like commas that dematerialize into a spatially ambiguous surface shimmer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

The only thing more devastating than the abrupt disappearance of one parent is watching another dematerialize in slow-motion.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2021

Restaurants have had it rough in South Lake Union, where Amazon workers love lunch and can get behind a happy hour, but tend to dematerialize at dinnertime.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2020

Outside the truck, cities appear as so many bright lights, and then dematerialize, leaving Javier and the women journeyers on a big conveyor belt of cosmic darkness.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019

The guy was so quiet and brooding, he almost seemed to dematerialize when he wasn’t speaking.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

On the eve of a corruption investigation, he dematerialized from a New York street in 1930, perhaps carrying thousands of dollars from checks he’d just had cashed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026

As the apparition dematerialized, Guido bid it farewell: “Toodle, Victah, ghost da poils!”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2022

“And there's no charge for today ...” As I dematerialized, teleporting to the exit coordinates, Ishmael added: “... because the first one's always free.”

From Nature ● Sep. 27, 2016

Mr. Levinson exhibited in 1973 at the John Weber Gallery in SoHo, which represented numerous artists working in dematerialized ways, but the frequency of his exhibitions decreased in the ’80s and ’90s.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2014

The hay in the meadows along the banks was mostly carried, and the cattle were magically fused with the July sunlight, curiously dematerialized like the creatures of a mirage.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie

“I could see them almost walking through the whole place and disappearing beyond that door, just dematerializing into something else.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022

“Interior walls are dematerializing, with rooms defined by glass doors or columns or completely open to each other.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2017

The way the light reflects off the metallic columns is pleasing but also helps them blend in with their surroundings, an effect Ramsey calls "dematerializing."

From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2016

And the dematerializing impulse was an international phenomenon, as the visually airy sampler “Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967-1978” makes clear.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2013

“Of course not. Ridge will be dematerializing in front of our very eyes. According to him, at least. Not exactly the kind of thing Beejee needs to see.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly