fade away

Since seeing her son - an education officer in the Israeli military who was 18 at the time - forced into a jeep and driven away, "fading away into Gaza", she has received no signs of life.

Deandre Ayton spent the last two years fading away from the national spotlight on a team that was closer to getting the first overall pick than getting to the first round of the playoffs.

But a quick social media search reveals that a lot of people who are dying or watching a loved one fade away with cancer and other illnesses really believed it.

As traditional, human-dependent techniques and analog approaches to creation fade away, it makes the spirit of these increasingly obsolescent facets of society all the more precious.

Youth is supposed to fade away, not become one’s permanent state.