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[van-ish] / ˈvæn ɪʃ /


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The equivalence principle says that gravity should effectively vanish locally for an observer in free fall.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

A floating 'island' in a reservoir in British Columbia has turned up about 20 miles from where it was last spotted, after seeming to vanish in July.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

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

Frankie, his mother, Sam, and everyone else—all of them were going to see that things didn’t vanish just because you ignored them.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

A pair of women, seeming doppelgängers of Ari’s roommate and a second guest, suddenly appear; as inexplicably, the host vanishes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Roll the account into an IRA and the exception vanishes permanently.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

If a black hole never fully vanishes, the next question is obvious: what happens to the information it contains?

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

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

From Slate Apr. 22, 2026

Marco catches Celia’s glance with a hint of the smile from earlier before he turns away, fading into the background again almost as easily as her father vanishes into shadows.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Jordan may wish to exact revenge, and Eddy may want to find one of the victims who has vanished, but both have to go about their work furtively.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Apple is releasing new models of its AI-friendly desktop machines—the Mac Mini and Studio—after the previous generations became sleeper hits, and vanished from shelves.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

More than 500 Rohingya vanished at sea - what happened?

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

The tourists left an indelible mark on the city, but now they have vanished.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

Lehman Brothers had vanished, Merrill had surrendered, and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were just a week away from ceasing to be investment banks.

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

Araki’s screenplay, written alongside his “Now Apocalypse” series co-writer Karley Sciortino, hops back and forth between the time before Erika’s vanishing and immediately after.

From Salon Jul. 31, 2026

The presence of the master, Ranofer discovered, sharpened Pai’s already sharp eye and diminished his short temper to the vanishing point.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw




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