mysterious disappearance

collocation in English

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mysterious
adjective
uk
/mɪˈstɪə.ri.əs/us
/mɪˈstɪr.i.əs/
strange, not known, or ...
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disappearance
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌdɪs.əˈpɪə.rəns/us
/ˌdɪs.əˈpɪr.əns/
the fact of someone or ...
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(Definition ofmysteriousanddisappearancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Did cost overruns cause itsmysteriousdisappearance, or was there a fabrication about a non-existent game?
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During her search to find out more information about her double, she investigates her father'smysteriousdisappearance.
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Themysteriousdisappearanceof the score has suggested to some that it may have been appropriated by an opportunist.
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They have become legendary and many myths were created around their short existence andmysteriousdisappearance.
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Rising through the corporate ranks she eventually rose to supreme power after her father'smysteriousdisappearance.
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Hismysteriousdisappearanceturned him into a folk hero.
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A passionate bi-polarization regarding his fate has formed, among his fan base, over hismysteriousdisappearance.
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Hismysteriousdisappearanceone evening and eventually discovered death are the reasons for the family's reunion.
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On seeing this, he dedicated his life to understanding more about the diaries and his great-great grandfather'smysteriousdisappearance.
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She is a series regular until hermysteriousdisappearancein the fourth season finale.
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Thismysteriousdisappearancecase was never solved.
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Michael is compelled to investigate this girl'smysteriousdisappearance, which she believes is somehow linked to recent nightmares.
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Toad's crime lands him in prison, and his friends worry about hismysteriousdisappearance.
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Blanche became one of the famed humorist's favored correspondents, a position she still retained at the time of hismysteriousdisappearancein 1914.
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Deaths and mysterious disappearances became more commonplace at the house.
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Deaths and mysterious disappearances continued at the house.
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There are still a lot of mysterious disappearances; we are no nearer to knowing what is causing them.
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The episode began by detailing the so-called brain drain: a number of mysterious disappearances and deaths of physicists, engineers, astronomers, and others in related fields.
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The connection had people stumbling in from both universes, causing terror over mysterious disappearances and mix-ups over parallel world doubles.
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