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vaporize

[vey-puh-rahyz] / ˈveɪ pəˌraɪz /
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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

Too high, and the heat will vaporize the entire droplet.

From Science Daily May 24, 2024

Earlier researchers “didn’t think a lot about what happens to things that vaporize during reentry. Of course they can’t disappear. They’ve got to go somewhere,” Murphy says.

From Scientific American Oct. 26, 2023

As the kettle heats further, chemicals with higher boiling points vaporize and then are condensed and collected.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2023

As they got closer, Frank worried that the store might burst into rainbow light and vaporize them, but the building stayed dark.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Its outer layer vaporizes and becomes an electrically charged gas, causing the object to glow brightly.

From Science Daily May 14, 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

After Sinner won Wimbledon, it wasn’t hard to find murmuring that the 24-year-old Italian might be making a separation, that his sudden mastery of the grass vaporized Alcaraz’s last edge.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2025

While the latter two were essentially vaporized by the fire, the burned shells of the others remain, steel sentinels left ravaged by the flames.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 15, 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

Other practices offer cryofacials, which use vaporized liquid nitrogen to super-cool the skin.

From National Geographic Feb. 21, 2024

But he had shot me one of his smoldering Baba looks, and the words had vaporized on my tongue.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

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

However, the tails of comets are usually formed by vaporizing ice and carbon dioxide, which cannot explain this tail.

From Science Daily Nov. 28, 2023

“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

It looked like the only thing that was keeping Phoebe from vaporizing into the air and disappearing was his hand resting there.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech




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