vanish
verb (used without object)
to disappear from sight, especially quickly; become invisible.
vanishingly
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a word derived from
vanish.
Example Sentences
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By 1778 Linnaeus had put names to 12,000 animals and plants, a vanishingly small proportion of the millions of species on Earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Some of these species are seen fairly regularly elsewhere in Southeast Asia, but encounters can be vanishingly rare in the Cardamoms.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
“In reality, the FCC has vanishingly little power over national news networks. It licenses local broadcast stations, not networks, and no licenses are up for renewal until 2028.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
Over hours of press conferences, speeches and dozens of social media posts, mentions of cyber operations are vanishingly rare.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
An average man can detect just a few molecules of butyl mercaptan, and most of us can sense the presence of musk in vanishingly small amounts.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
