dematerialize

Example Sentences

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He dematerialized in front of defenders just at the moment when they thought they finally had him in their grasp.

From The Guardian

Last remaining human Prince fan is honored by bots and then ritually dematerialized.

From The New Yorker

The movie’s expressive moments—and there are many—are largely uprooted, decontextualized, and dematerialized, planted like index cards rather than allowed to unfold and to develop.

From The New Yorker

Heaven forfend we should be confronted with the art itself: Film has been dematerialized, reduced to a thousand points of metadata that we can argue about in the safe, self-righteous abstract.

From Washington Post

But by inviting visitors to dematerialize the Ceiling Cat sculpture back into an Internet meme, the curator seems to say: “This was all in good fun.”

From Washington Post