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disappear

[dis-uh-peer] / ˌdɪs əˈpɪər /


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The complimentary appetizer that was once cheap enough to disappear into the cost of doing business becomes expensive enough to notice.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Bleaching events since 2018 have caused widespread coral mortality, with the United Nations' World Ocean Assessment warning that 90 percent of reefs could disappear if global warming tops 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Plus, why we sound like chatbots, how El Niño made the Atlantic hurricane season disappear, and the race to build AI defenses against bioweapons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Virtual particles continually appear and disappear, producing an ever present background of quantum fluctuations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

My befuddled brain simply thinks it’s another hallucination and I wait for it to disappear.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

"We even showed that the modes persist above the temperature at which superconductivity disappears, a telltale theoretical prediction that has not been convincingly observed before now."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Returning to the theme at that year's end-of-season ATP Finals, Medvedev said any bad blood soon disappears after leaving the court.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Here’s something to shoot for: Your mortgage will be gone in about five years, and once that $1,150 payment disappears, your expenses fall to roughly $2,250, which your Social Security check alone would cover.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Economists call this creative destruction: Innovations displace old products and technologies, so a job that disappears can also a result in a new one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

I watch until my eyes blur and the stick disappears into the folds of the current.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

The next evening, Cohn made the long slog back out to 2001 Odyssey, but the young man had disappeared.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026

Pearce Quigley, who played Danebury Metal Detecting Club member Russell in “Detectorists” stars as Michael Sleep, whose life has been on pause since his girlfriend, Clea, disappeared on Christmas Eve seven years earlier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Hopes of a resolution to the Drumcree dispute have faded but have not disappeared completely.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

If galaxies were already enriching nearby space only 500 million years after the Big Bang, truly pristine gas may have disappeared quickly.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

To the left, it wound into a valley of misty beech trees; to the right, it disappeared up a dank gully, its steep sides an uninviting jumble of moss-covered boulders.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

His photographs capture not only the movie houses but their ornate facades and decay -- a record of a cultural landscape disappearing as cinemas are demolished, converted into multiplexes or left to crumble.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

It’s all part of the radical ways entry-level work is changing, and disappearing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The name is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the theory that the internet today is mostly bots, AI slop and corporate algorithms, while the human element is quickly disappearing from the web.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Drywood termites are remarkably good at disappearing into the very material they destroy.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

If the moon didn’t eat soon, it’d risk fading away completely, but from what Jack had seen, it never learned, disappearing from view at least once a month.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley




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