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

Weiss We can still get chills walking over the bridge into Lower Manhattan — in the morning light the Woolworth Building, the Gehry building, the Municipal Building all dematerialize.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2020

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

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

Yet even in a very different, dematerialized moment for photography, Avedon’s silver gelatin friezes of 1969-71 still confound.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

In fact, the waterfront dining room and the meticulously prepared tasting menu have already dematerialized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

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

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2022

It seemed like Wanda’s kids were dematerialized along with Vision, but those voices calling for help sound awfully familiar.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2021

I heard the stories of all concerned, and realized that you must have dematerialized Miss Crawford by mistake, and then, unable to bring her back, had followed her yourself.

From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various

“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

As for Yeshua, the believed Messiah, he’s a smiling cipher given to dematerializing mid-confab, leaving behind enigmatic pronouncements and baffled followers.

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 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