as in to disappear
to cease to be visible
the house vanished into the fog as we drove away
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The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books: $30) Two worlds collide when a teenager vanishes from her Adirondacks summer camp.
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The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Barely legible messages flick up in green, red and yellow, then vanish.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
As that ocean vanished, its creatures perished, their fossil bones forming the fertile, chalky soils of the South.
—Caroline Winterer / Made By History, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
At times, the boundary between the press and the Army vanishes altogether.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Barely legible messages flick up in green, red and yellow, then vanish.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
As that ocean vanished, its creatures perished, their fossil bones forming the fertile, chalky soils of the South.
—Caroline Winterer / Made By History, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
At times, the boundary between the press and the Army vanishes altogether.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Vanish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanish. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.
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