dematerialize
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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
There is no insistence in Tanowitz’s work; its beauties flower and dematerialize before your eyes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
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
In a world determined to dematerialize our interactions with each other, we crave the tactile experience of an actual card — something to choose, something to personalize, something to save.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 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
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
That form chivalry draped with graces and Dante dematerialized.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
“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
