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disappear

[dis-uh-peer] / ˌdɪs əˈpɪər /


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Maxime Fallet, who works at a Doubs riverboat excursion company, fears the lake is "destined to disappear", for lack of a plan to save it.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Plus, why we sound like chatbots, how El Niño made the Atlantic hurricane season disappear, and the race to build AI defenses against bioweapons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

When older people cannot support themselves, the costs don’t disappear — they shift to their adult children, their grandchildren, public assistance programs and communities, she said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

He said the business was focussed on "everyday low prices, not short-lived offers that disappear the following week".

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

He could tell by the tone of Mama’s voice that the fat was in the fire, and he was trying very hard to disappear altogether.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Here’s something to shoot for: Your mortgage will be gone in about five years, and once that $1,150 payment disappears, your expenses fall to roughly $2,250, which your Social Security check alone would cover.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Those measurements could reveal not only how quickly the window for planet formation closes, but also which regions of a disk are capable of producing different types of planets before their gas supply disappears.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

And it’s because, when you take a photograph or a scan, that blue pencil disappears.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

The average mammal disappears from the fossil record in two million years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

She grunts and nods, disappears inside for a moment, and comes back with a set of keys and a lit lantern.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

If galaxies were already enriching nearby space only 500 million years after the Big Bang, truly pristine gas may have disappeared quickly.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

But then after rates jumped, the buyers disappeared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Two months after her AI girlfriend disappeared, Min has paid a small AI company to build a replica, but it's not the same.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

More than 134,000 people are listed as disappeared in Mexico.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

“Very good,” Callaway said, and then he turned back, took two large steps forward, and disappeared into the rock.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

It’s all part of the radical ways entry-level work is changing, and disappearing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Those hardships are visible after sunset, when electricity fails, disappearing entire neighborhoods into stifling darkness.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

But this archive is disappearing before scientists have had time to fully study it.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The name is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the theory that the internet today is mostly bots, AI slop and corporate algorithms, while the human element is quickly disappearing from the web.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

But his glance hadn’t been casual: he knew he hadn’t blinked, not while Angela was disappearing.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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