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[van-ish] / ˈvæn ɪʃ /


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He takes time to let us hear what a glacier sounds like while showing the swirls of blue ice, but also what it looks like when glaciers collapse and vanish.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

In Spain, where the total eclipse will be best viewed, the shadow will cross the country diagonally from the northern Atlantic coast to the Mediterranean Sea, where it will vanish at around 1830 GMT.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

“How can someone vanish without a trace,” Savannah asked herself.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

For a few hours, fear did not vanish.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

Funny, easygoing Allun the baker was going to vanish with the others into the secret maze of cliffs and forests that rose above them.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

Companies need to ask themselves what happens if their AI supplier vanishes or is ordered to cut off service.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Right now, when you play Gkolomeev’s “world-record” video on YouTube, a medical-risk warning appears for barely five seconds — then vanishes.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 23, 2026

That doubt usually vanishes once it becomes a “he said, they said” case.

From Slate Apr. 22, 2026

In "Weapons," an original story that grossed $270 million worldwide, Madigan plays Gladys, the mysterious aunt of a young boy whose entire elementary school class vanishes one night -- at the same precise time.

From Barron's Mar. 15, 2026

My illusion vanishes and Elsie scrambles around the table to where I’m standing.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Linda, originally from Llanybydder in Wales, had been in the midst of divorce proceedings and had visited a bank with a court order to freeze her husband's bank accounts the week before she vanished.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

A meet-up with Meyers’ “artistic community,” a circle of so-called intellectuals known as the Enthusiasm Society, leads Ed to humbly dip a toe back into his vanished creative side.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

It also opens new possibilities for studying extinct animals at the molecular level, potentially giving scientists access to biological information that was once assumed to have vanished during fossilization.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

Rental cars and hotel rooms vanished across the path of totality.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Then the pictures stopped there, at the top stair, like that girl had vanished, which, in a way, she had.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

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

Araki’s screenplay, written alongside his “Now Apocalypse” series co-writer Karley Sciortino, hops back and forth between the time before Erika’s vanishing and immediately after.

From Salon Jul. 31, 2026

Brunelleschi’s paintings did not have vanishing points, but they did have situated viewers.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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