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
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
Outside the truck, cities appear as so many bright lights, and then dematerialize, leaving Javier and the women journeyers on a big conveyor belt of cosmic darkness.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2019
But by inviting visitors to dematerialize the Ceiling Cat sculpture back into an Internet meme, the curator seems to say: “This was all in good fun.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2019
“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
And, then, finally, into its current form as a dematerialized “function,” one of many, on a “smartphone.”
From Slate ● May 15, 2012
It may interest you, however, to know that this phase of aura is always present around and about a "ghost" or dematerialized disembodied soul, or "spirit" as common usage terms it.
From The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms by Panchadasi, Swami
“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
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
