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vanish

[van-ish] / ˈvæn ɪʃ /


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He takes time to let us hear what a glacier sounds like while showing the swirls of blue ice, but also what it looks like when glaciers collapse and vanish.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

In Spain, where the total eclipse will be best viewed, the shadow will cross the country diagonally from the northern Atlantic coast to the Mediterranean Sea, where it will vanish at around 1830 GMT.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Something as embedded and sentimental as street food doesn’t just vanish.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2026

Now I live in Gurugram, where footpaths vanish into rubble and garbage, are abruptly blocked by parked vehicles or construction, or sit uncomfortably high above the road.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

She’d win, and serve the king, and then vanish into nothing, and think no more of castles or kings or assassins.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

“Their vessel leaves a smooth, filigree-edged road on the ocean that vanishes and erases itself,” Enda notices on her voyage, “so that they can never find their way back, even if they want to.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

That doubt usually vanishes once it becomes a “he said, they said” case.

From Slate Apr. 22, 2026

In "Weapons," an original story that grossed $270 million worldwide, Madigan plays Gladys, the mysterious aunt of a young boy whose entire elementary school class vanishes one night -- at the same precise time.

From Barron's Mar. 15, 2026

Methane has been detected repeatedly, but it vanishes faster than existing models can explain.

From Science Daily Dec. 29, 2025

My eyes open and the sense of security vanishes.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

The town he fled had all but vanished beneath a torrent of water, mud and debris.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

Multiple parents recounted a Christmas photo-op in which an ICE agent dressed as Santa Claus shoved away children who tried to hug him, then vanished with his treats the moment the cameras disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Linda, originally from Llanybydder in Wales, had been in the midst of divorce proceedings and had visited a bank with a court order to freeze her husband's bank accounts the week before she vanished.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

The source was extremely bright at some wavelengths, yet its light vanished entirely below certain wavelengths.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

If mere scandal could have destroyed the big Wall Street investment banks, they would have vanished long ago.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Meanwhile, ice vanishing due to climate warming is steadily destabilizing mountainous regions like the Himalayas, scientists say.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has captured a remarkable celestial sight: Earth briefly vanishing behind Phobos in the evening sky of Mars.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

“Glaciers are leaving geologic time and are vanishing in the span of a human lifetime, which is unprecedented,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

"The thought of all that money, all that time that I've saved up, that excitement completely vanishing into the ether, it was terrifying," he says.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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