- present participle of vanish.
vanishing
Example Sentences
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"We hope that by putting this extraordinary bird into millions of pockets and purses, we can spark a nationwide conversation about a species at real risk of vanishing from Britain forever."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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
“He believed that they should be protected as a sort of vanishing species. Well, that turned out to be madness, right?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
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