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- noun Plural form of
disappearance .
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Examples
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As Ray drives away from Hammer Bay in the final pages, the true culprit responsible for the disappearances is still at large and the children and their memories are still gone.
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Looking into recent disappearances is probably the best shot.
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The top two stories were "Wolf Night" by Martha Wells (August), a murder mystery set at an isolated Old West inn, where a werewolf seems to be on a killing rampage; and "A Night in Electric Squidland" by Sarah Monette (June), about a psychic investigator looking at disappearances from a shady nightclub.
December 9th, 2006 ericmarin 2006
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This powerful story of secrets and suspicions, hidden histories and mysterious disappearances is at once compelling and heart-warming, showing the redemptive power of loyalty and friendship.
The Observations: Summary and book reviews of The Observations by Jane Harris. 2006
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Recent years have seen an alarming increase in disappearances, and the use of summary execution without benefit of fair or even of any trial.
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But a rash of disappearances from the Somali community in Minnesota has U.S. intelligence officials worried they are seeing the beginning of America's first jihadi pipeline.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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He was responsible for terrible torture, and abuses, and what came to be called disappearances of people in Chile.
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Whether the disappearances are the weather ... or murders ... or the ancients ... how could you tell?
Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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PAMELA CONSTABLE, WASHINGTON POST: He was responsible for terrible torture and abuses and what came to be called disappearances of people in Chile.
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PAMELA CONSTABLE, WASHINGTON POST: He was responsible for terrible torture and abuses and what came to be called disappearances of people in Chile.
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