as in vanishing
to cease to be visible
the stranger disappeared into the mists, never to be seen again
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Recent Examples of disappearing
From repurposing parking lots to the specter of tariffs, disappearing pharmacies, and helping to ease the nation’s housing shortage, there are no lack of challenges and opportunities to be mulled over at this week’s ICSC New York convention.
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David Moin, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
Some applications, like Signal, have the option of disappearing messages.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
In addition to the unhealthy levels of smog over the summer, residents have had to contend with contaminated dust from the swiftly disappearing Salton Sea, California’s largest lake.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Seeking to combat the crack-cocaine trade that ran rampant in cities across America, the two bills caused a tidal wave in African-American communities—creating a crack-cocaine sentencing disparity, skyrocketing mass incarceration, and disappearing a generation of people—all because of crack.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
As the planet’s surface heats up, this can cause them to thin or dissipate entirely, setting up a complicated feedback loop where low clouds are disappearing because of global warming, and their disappearance then drives further warming.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
Springtime snows are particularly disappearing.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
The unknown thief who used the name Dan Cooper took passengers and crew hostage aboard Northwest Orient Flight 305 before jumping out and disappearing somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Nevada.
—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2024
The wolves walked right past these trees and then continued to follow the tree line, eventually disappearing over the hillside.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
David Moin, WWD, 11 Dec. 2024
Some applications, like Signal, have the option of disappearing messages.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
In addition to the unhealthy levels of smog over the summer, residents have had to contend with contaminated dust from the swiftly disappearing Salton Sea, California’s largest lake.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Seeking to combat the crack-cocaine trade that ran rampant in cities across America, the two bills caused a tidal wave in African-American communities—creating a crack-cocaine sentencing disparity, skyrocketing mass incarceration, and disappearing a generation of people—all because of crack.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
As the planet’s surface heats up, this can cause them to thin or dissipate entirely, setting up a complicated feedback loop where low clouds are disappearing because of global warming, and their disappearance then drives further warming.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
Springtime snows are particularly disappearing.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
The unknown thief who used the name Dan Cooper took passengers and crew hostage aboard Northwest Orient Flight 305 before jumping out and disappearing somewhere between Seattle and Reno, Nevada.
—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 27 Nov. 2024
The wolves walked right past these trees and then continued to follow the tree line, eventually disappearing over the hillside.
—Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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