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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The odds of shareholders pushing out Musk are vanishingly small.
From Barron's ● May 17, 2026
Yet her reasons were as much political as personal, stemming from an urge to document her life as a newly out lesbian in the 1970s, when such representation was vanishingly rare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
The question really ought to be, does this make sense to have this push if the problem is vanishingly rare in the first place.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026
Alex gives everything he reviews either one star or five, and the latter are vanishingly rare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025
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
