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vaporize

[vay-puh-rahyz] / ˈveɪ pəˌraɪz /
VERB
evaporate
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“You don’t often watch a company vaporize in front of your eyes,” he told me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

During a massive impact, temperatures soar, allowing potassium to vaporize and its isotopes to separate.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026

This robotic mission is designed to search for volatiles, which are molecules that easily vaporize, like water and carbon dioxide, at lunar temperatures.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2023

The compressed air starts to glow, and when it reaches a temperature of about 2,000 degrees Celsius, the solid material in the meteoroid starts to vaporize.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023

“If we bring down all of the fire, it should vaporize all of the poison and leave behind only the third key!”

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

As temperatures fall, less ice vaporizes from the surface and near-surface layers.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026

When a single research report vaporizes hundreds of billions in market cap, institutional investors have already modeled their own displacement.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

The chase scenes are shot with cool colors and shadows, but the tension vaporizes soon as you realize that the killer can pop up anywhere, untethered by logic or physics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

Patagonia is collecting end-of-life wet suits for a partner that vaporizes them to reclaim what’s known as carbon black, a key ingredient in neoprene and in the natural rubber Patagonia uses.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024

It's a sullen, vindictive cold outside, colder than it's been in months, and my breath vaporizes as we hurry along the canal.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

The suit, filed last week in Arlington, Va. where Boeing is based, is the latest to allege that exposure to vaporized engine oils during a flight has led to long-term illness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Other human remains found elsewhere in Herculaneum had iron oxide deposits in the skull, suggesting that the fluids in the skull were vaporized by the heat, leaving only traces of degraded heme proteins.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025

“There’s another element there that I think is the key element, and that is an agreed upon hierarchy, which I think is absolutely vaporized in today’s moment,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

But researchers could not rule out another possibility: that the planet is bare, save for a tenuous shroud of vaporized rock, rich in elements like silicon, iron, aluminum, and calcium.

From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024

Beating on the fire with my hands, I had it out in a few seconds, but not before a large section of the tent’s inner wall vaporized before my eyes.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

These high velocity impacts shattered enormous volumes of rock beneath the surface while vaporizing material and scattering molten rock across the landscape.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026

Airbus and Boeing, the two biggest aircraft manufacturers, have acknowledged that malfunctions can lead to oil and hydraulic fluid leaking into the engines or power units and vaporizing at extreme heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2025

The massive machine uses deep-learning AI models to scan fields and identify weeds in real time before vaporizing them with more than 30 high-powered lasers, all while protecting the crop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2024

“With all these launches, the amount of material vaporizing during reentry could become roughly comparable to the amount of meteoritic material coming in. And it’s different stuff, a different mix of metals,” Murphy says.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023

She zipped it to my phone with a patch that I opened first to prevent the worm from vaporizing my hard drive.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin




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