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
Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Continue reading … MISSING IN ACTION – Congresswoman who quietly vanished from Capitol Hill has been living in a retirement facility.
—Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
But as the immediate prospects for democracy have all but vanished from China, his politics have shifted from reaction to reflection.
—Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
Tice, a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers, and other outlets, vanished at a checkpoint in a contested region west of Damascus in 2012, as the Syrian civil war escalated.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
As the show begins, an agent posted in Minsk has gotten drunk, crashed his car and been taken into custody at the police station-from which he's vanished without explanation.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
The aircraft vanished from radar screens somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam less than an hour after takeoff.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
And in that time, law enforcement has virtually vanished, the attorney Roni Pelli of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel told me.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
One by one, in the summer of 1984, teenage girls vanished off the streets of this historic town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Verb
Some visions of moral progress look forward to a world in which the in-group/out-group distinction has vanished.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Continue reading … MISSING IN ACTION – Congresswoman who quietly vanished from Capitol Hill has been living in a retirement facility.
—Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
But as the immediate prospects for democracy have all but vanished from China, his politics have shifted from reaction to reflection.
—Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
Tice, a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, McClatchy newspapers, and other outlets, vanished at a checkpoint in a contested region west of Damascus in 2012, as the Syrian civil war escalated.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
As the show begins, an agent posted in Minsk has gotten drunk, crashed his car and been taken into custody at the police station-from which he's vanished without explanation.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
The aircraft vanished from radar screens somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam less than an hour after takeoff.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 20 Dec. 2024
And in that time, law enforcement has virtually vanished, the attorney Roni Pelli of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel told me.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
One by one, in the summer of 1984, teenage girls vanished off the streets of this historic town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vanished
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The company's ambitious goal is to resurrect extinct species like the woolly mammoth, the dodo, and the Tasmanian tiger.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
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As if that wasn’t involved enough, there was an extra degree of difficulty added in those moments where Orlok speaks Dacian, an extinct language, in scenes where the vampire communicates with Ellen via their psychic connection.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
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In May, a pair of Bayer fans attempting to view the sculpture from over a short brick wall on the backside of the property alerted Koko Bayer that the sculpture had disappeared.Andrew Travers, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2025
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Now that Christmas has passed, almost all seasonal tunes and albums have disappeared, making room for popular projects and cuts of all styles to surge.Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Bush chose Moody a year later to serve on the Board of Regents, the defunct governing body for the state’s university system.Dan Sullivan, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
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Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Digital Currency Group, the crypto firm founded by Barry Silbert, and the former executive of a defunct unit are paying the SEC $38.5 million for misleading investors.MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025
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The original pioneers were mostly busy making non-hyperpop or gone: SOPHIE tragically died in 2021; 100 gecs spent years toiling to make their zany stadium-rock second album.Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 Oct. 2024
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People have found out in the process — some who’ve gone virtual — their attendance has gone way up.Peggy O’Hare, ExpressNews.com, 7 May 2020
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Coco Austin Defends Bathing Her 6-Year-Old Daughter In Sink By Maggie Ekberg Contributing Entertainment Writer 1 Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors What happens when a Hollywood icon gets pulled over for expired plates?Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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So is the time he was pulled over for an expired plate.Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Vanished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vanished. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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