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vaporize

[vey-puh-rahyz] / ˈveɪ pəˌraɪz /
VERB
evaporate
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"Because the collision was considered violent enough to melt and vaporize large portions of Earth and Theia, those previous papers assumed that it is okay to approximate them as fluids," Asphaug said.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

“You don’t often watch a company vaporize in front of your eyes,” he told me.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

This robotic mission is designed to search for volatiles, which are molecules that easily vaporize, like water and carbon dioxide, at lunar temperatures.

From Salon Dec. 29, 2023

Earlier researchers “didn’t think a lot about what happens to things that vaporize during reentry. Of course they can’t disappear. They’ve got to go somewhere,” Murphy says.

From Scientific American Oct. 26, 2023

Riding full gallop on a beast that could vaporize at any moment made her a bit nervous.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

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

While the latter two were essentially vaporized by the fire, the burned shells of the others remain, steel sentinels left ravaged by the flames.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 15, 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

Other practices offer cryofacials, which use vaporized liquid nitrogen to super-cool the skin.

From National Geographic Feb. 21, 2024

A radioactive plume of vaporized coral drifted east, covering seven thousand square miles of ocean.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

These high velocity impacts shattered enormous volumes of rock beneath the surface while vaporizing material and scattering molten rock across the landscape.

From Science Daily Jul. 2, 2026

“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

It does sound magical that a human being could turn into glass, but far better if studying the Guardian can prevent vaporizing, volatilization and vitrification — or saponification — of anyone else.

From Salon Mar. 4, 2025

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

She zipped it to my phone with a patch that I opened first to prevent the worm from vaporizing my hard drive.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin




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