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noun

as in melting

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vanishing

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verb

present participle of vanish
as in disappearing
to cease to be visible the house vanished into the fog as we drove away

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Recent Examples of vanishing
Noun
Bearing witness to that vanishing is a rare and fleeting privilege. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2026 The vanishing of any craft is a tragedy to all who prefer the existence of a thing to its opposite, but restorative art represents more than just a niche domain of aesthetic achievement or a macabre postmortem racket. — John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026 That question, once unimaginable, has become urgent as climate change shrinks the country’s glaciers to the vanishing point. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 July 2026 Upon driving home from work on the afternoon of Denise's vanishing, her husband Nathan Lee found their children, 2-year-old Noah and 6-month-old Adam, alone in the same crib. — Mason Leath, ABC News, 19 June 2026 Watching Moon and this better daughter, Stevie fantasizes about walking out of the store and vanishing. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026 There were those e-books, the vanishing of book review sections and book reviews from newspapers, struggles of independent bookstores in the face of Amazon and, most recently, the invasion of AI, with its Claude, Perplexity, ChatGPT and Gemini with their seductive and threatening ways. — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026 That’s followed by periods of contemplation, energized wakefulness, and, purportedly, a vanishing of withdrawal symptoms. — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026 Sontag claimed to have forgotten about him, but his vanishing is better explained on writerly grounds. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
Verb
The taboos against assassination, targeting civilians, and embarking on wars of territorial conquest are vanishing. — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 For a family member, an obit represents an imprimatur, validation by association, a keepsake that maintains their heritage and, perhaps for a generation, prevents their own legacy from vanishing like a walnut in the batter of eternity. — Sam Roberts, Longreads, 11 Aug. 2026 The proof relied on certain sequences vanishing to zero and referenced the group’s 2009 paper. — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2026 One week after Connecticut reserved $500 million from last year’s surplus to potentially replace vanishing federal dollars for human services, surging revenues already have replenished much of the state’s coffers. — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026 The idea was to memorialize a vanishing Eden and the end of his five years of vagabonding, working on rivers, paying no rent. — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026 But then the recovery hit the buffers in Halifax, that hard-won momentum vanishing in a momentary loss of control through a routine maneuver and subsequent crash during the warm-up session. — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 24 July 2026 Reading – not just any kind of reading, but reading long, complex, challenging books – is quickly vanishing from the American scene. — Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 23 July 2026 Environmentalists say this could spell the end for the vanishing whales, which can drown after getting tangled up in fishing gear or being struck by boats. — ABC News, 22 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanishing
  1. melting
  2. disappearing
  3. passing
  4. fading
  5. evaporation
  6. dissipation
  7. disappearance
Noun
  • Published in Nature, the study resolves the discrepancy between experiments and theoretical simulations of the melting temperature of diamond and show that the diamond structure persists up to 1 TPa.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
  • To date, per the CPSC, the company has received at least 19 reports of the products smoking, sparking, burning, melting, overheating or catching fire.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of melting
Verb
  • The slump has hit Los Angeles especially hard — with more than 50,000 jobs disappearing since 2022.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Cofounder Crissy Fissbane agrees that face‑to‑face connection is resurging but doesn’t believe virtual networking is disappearing.
    — Alison Coleman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of disappearing
Noun
  • His arm talent and ability to protect the football could give FIU a more efficient passing attack.
    — Alejandro Hernandez, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The three spacecraft will beam lasers at each other, looking for deviations in the travel time of those laser beams as evidence for the passing of a long-wavelength gravitational wave.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of passing
Verb
  • Clip the plant right below the fading flowers and just above where leaves are.
    — Mallory Carra, The Spruce, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The 20th century and its musicians keep fading away — but Rush came back.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of fading
Noun
  • Don’t forget to replace or add mulch to help slow moisture evaporation.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The hydrophobic side absorbs sunlight, converts it into heat, and drives water evaporation at the membrane surface.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of evaporation
Noun
  • That's increasingly difficult as chips become smaller and new solutions are needed to address signal integrity, power delivery, and heat dissipation.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Better quantum simulations Mingjian Zhu, a graduate student in physics and astronomy at Rice, revealed the system enables independent control over a thermal environment’s temperature and dissipation rate.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 31 July 2026
Definition of dissipation
Noun
  • At the time of her disappearance, the teen was about five feet tall and weighed approximately 100 pounds.
    — Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance is still a total mystery, but a person of interest is now speaking out about the case.
    — Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of disappearance

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