vanishing

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The scuttling of too many legs, combined with the spider’s habit of suddenly vanishing from sight, give even the most stalwart observer a case of the shivers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Trump aired concerns about thousands of jobs vanishing, and said he hoped a buyer would emerge.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Any additional yield for such bonds that emerged after the Iran war began vanishing after 15 days, a little bit more than the nine days it took for the stock market to recover.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

Cats slip in and out of their miniature palazzo, vanishing and reappearing as if through unseen doors.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Vitruvius described something like perspective painting, but the Renaissance invented a new combination of subjectivity and objectivity, the situated viewer and the vanishing point.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton