evanesce
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His later “wedge” sculptures, slender prisms of color that can reach heights of 8 feet, seemed to evanesce into transparent nothingness at the top.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2020
In the handful of works by Vuillard, both the abstract patterning and the absence of modeling cause the borders between the picture’s separate elements to evanesce.
From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2019
And, by the way, I think it would evanesce very completely.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 17, 2019
The ethereal vision of Fonny wreathed in smoke isn’t only striking; it exalts this moment and communicates its evanesce, turning emotion and thought into image.
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2018
Just as he was about to evanesce completely, Frieda, Liz, and Betty burst in from the kitchen.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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