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• To many, the snow that seemed to vanish into thin air would go unnoticed.
  — WIRED, 29 July 2023
• The other version of events is: Annie is left there, and the tongue is cut and the tongue disappears into thin air.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
• By the time the boys arrived home and police were summoned, Jacob and the man had vanished into thin air.
  — Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
• There’s no way that my brother would just vanish into thin air like this.
  — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 7 Sep. 2023
• In one building, your correspondent reached the top of a flight of stairs and stepped into thin air where a floor should have been.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2020
• Right as the 15-year-old stepped off the concrete and into thin air, a man in a light brown jacket wrapped his arms around Henick’s chest and pulled him back to safety.
  — Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Nov. 2021
• The older girl disappears into thin air as the villain strikes her down and the younger one is left alone to finish the battle.
  — Aisha Salaudeen, CNN, 1 Jan. 2021
• With the owner having vanished into thin air, the ship was sold and put back into service.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• The debt doesn’t disappear into thin air; it is transferred to others.
  — WSJ, 6 June 2023
• Like socks and lip balm, beach towels have a way of disappearing into thin air.
  — Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2021
• In the end, both Cruz and Residente turn into dust that disappears into thin air.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
• Somehow, a 12-foot-tall, full-body polar bear mount that had long presided over the second floor had vanished into thin air.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 1 Feb. 2024
• But in 1715 someone cut all four sides of the canvas to hang it on a wall in Amsterdam’s Town Hall, and the strips seemingly vanished into thin air.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2021
• For most people, the great Christian drama has ended, and all our players have vanished into thin air.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Nov. 2022
• True to his real-life version, video-game Julio Jones seemed to climb into thin air to grab the ball, and then dragged my defender briefly before breaking free for a touchdown.
  — R.k. Russell, Men's Health, 22 June 2023
• And in the mornings, the sunrise looks for long minutes like a Monet painting, getting ever brighter until the colors melt into thin air.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
• Then, before even reaching his super alien prime, Queefs vanished into thin air.
  — Zak Jason, Wired, 18 July 2021
• But some of the water also ends up going elsewhere — vanishing into thin air.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2023
• Do your valuables always seem to disappear into thin air?
  — Douglas Helm, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2022
• Just after the last sunset of the year, eight scientists at a secretive research station seem to vanish into thin air.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• Prepare to relax as your concerns disappear into thin air with ease.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2023
• In other cases, the damsel simply vanishes into thin air.
  — Matt Pearce, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Oct. 2021
• For all these breakthroughs, prewar gender norms did not evaporate into thin air.
  — Elaine Weiss, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
• As the employees started to call security, the guest faded into thin air right in front of them — a feat all three women reported seeing at the same time.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
• On their next three possessions, the Clippers turned the ball over, including passes into thin air, out of bounds and intended for a receiver who wasn’t standing there.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• Months after vanishing into thin air, their bodies were found buried in Daybell's backyard outside of Rexburg, Idaho.
  — Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 1 Sep. 2021
• That sets off an obsessive hunt when Dellrayne appears to vanish into thin air off the top of a tall building after using some kind of mind control on Rourke’s law enforcement colleagues.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
• Village women sharing stories of abuse vanish into thin air, leaving their abusers abandoned.
  — The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
• Lee is also disarmingly delicate, like something that could slip away into thin air.
  — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
• In the end the prince marries another girl and the mermaid, unable to kill the prince with a magical dagger for which her sisters have traded their long hair, eventually dissolves into thin air — seriously.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 24 May 2023

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024