as in extinct
no longer existing
the vanished tradition of the maypole as the center for May Day festivities
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as in disappeared
to cease to be visible
the house vanished into the fog as we drove away
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Recent Examples of vanished
Parin Moradiya, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
Prices of basic goods like cooking oil and chicken dramatically spiked overnight, and some products vanished all together.
—Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
My kids’ home had vanished too.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Even Golden Globes voters are now publicly identified, and rumors about secret rewards and travels have vanished.
—Peter Bart, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
State and local investigators have already reported that tens of billions of dollars of homelessness spending vanished without a paper trail.
—Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 7 Jan. 2026
Optimism outside of the building has largely vanished.
—Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Advertisement Venezuela is a country of 28 million people, riven by armed militias, criminal organizations, and Chavista loyalists who haven’t simply vanished because Maduro was helicoptered to New York.
—Bobby Ghosh, Time, 6 Jan. 2026
The day that Hujar lived and described, in December, 1974, comes off not as a set of isolated incidents but as across-section, both sociological and novelistic, of an entire world, one that vanished with the early deaths of many of its most vital creators.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
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Specialized districts, from meatpacking to printing, didn’t disappear because demand vanished.
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Many hominids went extinct during this period, and being able to consume alcohol without adverse and/or toxic effects would have conferred a survival advantage.—
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In 2017, winter steelhead populations at Oregon’s Willamette Falls seemed almost certain to soon go extinct, Michael Brown, the marine-mammal program leader at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, told me.—
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Even worse for him, the cash ripped from his waist and disappeared into the darkness.—
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Although multiple witnesses reported seeing a shark near where Fox disappeared, the coroner did not officially confirm a shark bite until Thursday.—
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But others have tried to claim the mocktail too, including the now-defunct Brown Derby restaurant in Los Angeles and The Royal Hawaiian hotel in Honolulu.—
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However, the amount of money actually saved by the department has been called into question and Musk has since left the administration, rendering DOGE somewhat defunct.—
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Once the flowers have faded, trim the stalks 1 to 2 inches above the bulb, retaining the green foliage.—
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The Lakers faded down the stretch to 27 points from the Spurs’ Keldon Johnson and 16 points and 14 rebounds by Victor Wembanyama.—
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And even with those two gone, Dubar slid down Boise State’s depth chart, managing just three carries for 12 yards so far in 2025.—
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Not only are the views, of course, often repulsive, but the actual form of argument is not argument… That’s what interests me, that even the most basic principles that people have worked on for 2,000 years to establish what a fact means…gone.—
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Troopers stopped a vehicle on Interstate 96 to investigate an expired registration plate.—
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An expired application notice posted outside the property names Robert Bateman of San Diego Land Engineering Inc.—
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“Vanished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanished. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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