dematerialize

The illusion was deliberate: The architect, Arata Isozaki, later wrote that he wanted to take a building—“an object overwhelmingly dominated by the force of gravity”—and dematerialize it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

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

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

“Can’t I?” replied Merlyn, taking up the position always used by philosophers who propose to dematerialize.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

“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

The sculptures resemble bigger-than-life classical human torsos dematerialized into woozy lattices of prismatic light.

From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2012

It was also true that only a few weeks had elapsed since the accused had, so to speak, dematerialized.

From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“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

What all these stores have in common is a firm belief in the book as art, at a time when the form of the book itself is dematerializing into the digital at a rapid clip.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2012

“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