vanish
verb (used without object)
to disappear from sight, especially quickly; become invisible.
have been vanishing
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present perfect progressiveof vanish.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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One leg is pensions, which have been vanishing in the workplace for decades.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 27, 2026
And, just as quickly, some of those signs have been vanishing.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2020
They have been vanishing since European colonization, first due to human destruction and now also because of a human-caused climate crisis.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2019
Independent mom-and-pop motels and hotels have been vanishing for years on our 1,100-mile coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2016
The dialectic peculiarities, which have been vanishing in Japan very rapidly these years, show still a trace of these samurai migrations.
From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Katsuro Hara
