vaporize
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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
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
When small pieces of space debris collide, they blow up into tiny fragments, some of which vaporize into a charged gas due to the heat generated by the impact.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2023
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
“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
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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
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A thin layer of vaporized rock might also exist, though it would not provide enough cooling on its own.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026
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
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
A flaming green cannonball sailed overhead and suddenly vaporized.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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“We are vaporizing many years of production in the last couple weeks,” said Tom Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
The polluted water oozing out of Chiquita Canyon contains cancer-causing benzene and other chemicals, which environmental regulators fear is vaporizing and drifting into nearby communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 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
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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