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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of vanish.

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Examples

  • If you catch him in a verifiable lie, he generally vanishes from a thread.

    Matthew Yglesias » Fair and Balanced 2010

  • Oh, first, the deletions --- Armey & Kibbe's "Tea Party Manifesto" vanishes from the bestseller lists this week, after being #1 in both the political and general rankings last week ...

    BOOK WORLD - October 3, 2010 Christopher Schoppa 2010

  • Our job is to resist it, and to plant the seeds of further resistance so that goodness never entirely vanishes from the universe.

    A Conversation with Chris Cleave about Little Bee 2010

  • Clove Eppingwell vanishes from the story after a single mention but Charley admires Mrs. Eppingwell, a cheery lady of great fortitude and courage.

    “There be things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice.” 2008

  • Especially good are the ones where the caper takes place in front of numerous witnesses, like the one where the rocket engine disappears during a five-second blackout or the one where $1 million in cash vanishes from a locked display case on a crowded casino floor.

    There’s an old Polish proverb that says… : Bev Vincent 2008

  • Your book vanishes from the seat next to you on the bus.

    The Lightest-Fingered Crooks in the World « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2007

  • I was returned to Earth by Zeta Ray, and immediately set about writing lurid pulp novels, in order to help destroy the literary conventions and tastes of mankind: once all sense of civility vanishes from a culture, it is relatively easy to turn them into zombies.

    INTERVIEW: Zombie John C. Wright 2007

  • They grow and spread, like the gourd along the ground; but, like the gourd, they give no shade to the traveller, and when they are ripe death gathers them, and they go down unloved into hell, and their name vanishes out of the land.

    Never Yet Melted 2009

  • I was returned to Earth by Zeta Ray, and immediately set about writing lurid pulp novels, in order to help destroy the literary conventions and tastes of mankind: once all sense of civility vanishes from a culture, it is relatively easy to turn them into zombies.

    June 2007 2007

  • Let's start with the title, "When morality vanishes from the battlefield, the war is lost".

    Archive 2005-01-16 Laban 2005

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