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vaporize

[vay-puh-rahyz] / ˈveɪ pəˌraɪz /
VERB
evaporate
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“You don’t often watch a company vaporize in front of your eyes,” he told me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

The solvent might vaporize and clog the emitter, so engineers typically design emitters to limit evaporation.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024

As the kettle heats further, chemicals with higher boiling points vaporize and then are condensed and collected.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2023

The compressed air starts to glow, and when it reaches a temperature of about 2,000 degrees Celsius, the solid material in the meteoroid starts to vaporize.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023

The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams.

From "1984" by George Orwell

When a single research report vaporizes hundreds of billions in market cap, institutional investors have already modeled their own displacement.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

The chase scenes are shot with cool colors and shadows, but the tension vaporizes soon as you realize that the killer can pop up anywhere, untethered by logic or physics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

The heat vaporizes the bottom, but the energy doesn't travel through the entire droplet.

From Science Daily ● May 24, 2024

Patagonia is collecting end-of-life wet suits for a partner that vaporizes them to reclaim what’s known as carbon black, a key ingredient in neoprene and in the natural rubber Patagonia uses.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024

It's a sullen, vindictive cold outside, colder than it's been in months, and my breath vaporizes as we hurry along the canal.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

The suit, filed last week in Arlington, Va. where Boeing is based, is the latest to allege that exposure to vaporized engine oils during a flight has led to long-term illness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Other human remains found elsewhere in Herculaneum had iron oxide deposits in the skull, suggesting that the fluids in the skull were vaporized by the heat, leaving only traces of degraded heme proteins.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025

If a water system loses water pressure, that allows contaminants such as bacteria and vaporized VOCs and other toxic chemicals to get inside, Solomon said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025

A planet with no atmosphere or an atmosphere consisting only of vaporized rock would not have this specific spectral feature.

From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024

In front of them, the legionnaire ghost vaporized.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

“We are vaporizing many years of production in the last couple weeks,” said Tom Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

The massive machine uses deep-learning AI models to scan fields and identify weeds in real time before vaporizing them with more than 30 high-powered lasers, all while protecting the crop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2024

However, the tails of comets are usually formed by vaporizing ice and carbon dioxide, which cannot explain this tail.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023

“With all these launches, the amount of material vaporizing during reentry could become roughly comparable to the amount of meteoritic material coming in. And it’s different stuff, a different mix of metals,” Murphy says.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023

Glowing droplets of eau de toilette streamed out behind me, instantly vaporizing into a silver mist that caught the eddies and spread, seeding the cloud.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda




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