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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
vanish .
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Examples
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If you catch him in a verifiable lie, he generally vanishes from a thread.
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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 ...
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Our job is to resist it, and to plant the seeds of further resistance so that goodness never entirely vanishes from the universe.
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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.”
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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.
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Your book vanishes from the seat next to you on the bus.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Let's start with the title, "When morality vanishes from the battlefield, the war is lost".
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