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

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

She has a distinctively concrete and practical way with photographs, and so avoids generic documentary techniques such as the vague and slow camera-moves, and the graphic transitions and effects that dematerialize photographs.

From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016

Last January, the temperatures were less frightening than Death Valley’s summertime triple-digits, and it was then I decided to visit, assured that I would neither melt nor dematerialize.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2011

“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

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

The lady herself seems strangely dematerialized because, as Lewis observes, “her character is distributed among personifications.”

From Slate ● May 3, 2016

He too looked at her in silence, and even Joan became dematerialized for one fateful moment.

From A Son of the Immortals by Howard Chandler Christy

“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