vanish
verb (used without object)
to disappear from sight, especially quickly; become invisible.
are vanishing
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present progressiveof vanish.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Many of the plans that are vanishing or shrinking are PPOs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
“Glaciers are leaving geologic time and are vanishing in the span of a human lifetime, which is unprecedented,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"When the city starts feeding the countryside, it means the country is done for," farmer Emil Deliev said from southern Bulgaria's mountains where small dairy farms are vanishing one after another.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
When scientists focus on the number of individual glaciers that are vanishing, rather than total ice volume, they find that the Alps could reach their highest rate of glacier loss between 2033 and 2041.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2025
A majority of the nongraduates are young men, and some come from towns where the factory work ethic, to get working as soon as possible, remains strong, even if the factories themselves are vanishing.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
