disappearance
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Once Baptiste's disappearance was reported in the media last weekend, BBC Sport began investigating his whereabouts.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
“The disappearance of the regent honeyeater’s song is a cultural issue, too,” Mr. Hoffman writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Their disappearance can have serious consequences, says NCF conservation biologist Stella Egbe: "In places where the total collapse of vultures has happened, there has been impact of rising zoonotic diseases."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
There’s his first line: “Fog took ’im,” Wyck says as the explanation for another fisherman’s mysterious disappearance in the pilot, delivered with utmost seriousness yet still landing like a punchline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
With some there was great joy at the sight of Frank Churchill; others took it very composedly; but there was a very general distress and disturbance on Miss Fairfax’s disappearance being explained.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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There have been several disappearances and deaths in water during this summer's hot weather.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Years on, the doctor-turned-activist became one of the most recognisable faces of a movement demanding answers about enforced disappearances in the province.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum has focused on distinguishing between disappearances committed by organized crime and those forced by state agents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Ramos, who investigated and publicized the case, said "I'm now convinced that the sanctions came out on April 16 because a documentary that denounced those enforced disappearances."
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
By focusing solely on Yakov’s death yet hinting at the disappearances of other boys, he had left the article open-ended like a penny dreadful.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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