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The art of being somewhere, then aggressively, undeniably not.
means The act of disappearing suddenly or gradually until completely out of sight.
from From 'vanish,' which slipped into English in the 1300s from Old French 'esvanir' (to disappear), itself worn down from Latin 'evanescere' — 'e-' (out) plus 'vanescere' (to fade away), built on 'vanus,' meaning empty or void. The same hollow Latin 'vanus' gives us 'vain' and 'vanity,' so a vanishing act is, fittingly, a small lesson in emptiness.
- magic trick
- Houdini made a 10,000-pound elephant disappear onstage in 1918
- math twist
- A vanishing point is where parallel lines pretend to meet
- vanishingly small
- Math slang for so tiny it's basically zero
- chemistry ghost
- Sublimation lets dry ice vanish without ever turning liquid
- vanishing cream
- Old beauty product that absorbed into skin without a trace
aral sea — central asian inland sea that shrunk from 68,000 km² in 1960 to 10% of that size by 2000 due to irrigation diversion
great barrier reef bleaching — massive coral die-off events in 2016, 2017, and 2020 caused by ocean warming, affecting 30-50% of the reef
passenger pigeon extinction — north american bird that went from billions in 1800s to complete extinction by 1914, last one died in cincinnati zoo