dematerialize
Example Sentences
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He dematerialized in front of defenders just at the moment when they thought they finally had him in their grasp.
From The Guardian
Last remaining human Prince fan is honored by bots and then ritually dematerialized.
From The New Yorker
The movie’s expressive moments—and there are many—are largely uprooted, decontextualized, and dematerialized, planted like index cards rather than allowed to unfold and to develop.
From The New Yorker
Heaven forfend we should be confronted with the art itself: Film has been dematerialized, reduced to a thousand points of metadata that we can argue about in the safe, self-righteous abstract.
From Washington Post
“Bierstadt presents a certain way of understanding nature as beautiful and unpeopled and full of animals and grain and enduring and static, and Hegarty takes that same image and literally dematerializes it,” he said.
From New York Times
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