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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn’t new. You’re talking about using disappear as a transitive verb, which is usually reserved for describing people being killed/kidnapped like by a political regime. Not sure of the origin, though.[/quote]

But it is grammatically incorrect. So when did it become mainstream?[/quote]

It’s no worse than “I was gifted this” or “he graduated from”[/quote]

I say graduated from - Johnnie graduated from Harvard vs Johnnie graduated Harvard.
Am I wrong?[/quote]

People have said it incorrectly for so long that it sounds right to them. But technically you didn’t graduate from a school. You WERE graduated FROM the school. As in the school was the doer. So the correct way to say it would be, “John was graduated from Harvard in 1950.” [/quote]

successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or high school.
"I graduated from West Point in 1965"
	
	
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qualify
pass one's exams
pass
be certified
be licensed
take an academic degree
receive/get one's degree
become a graduate
complete one's studies

informal•US
    receive an academic degree from.
    "she graduated college in 1970"
    North American
    confer a degree or other academic qualification on.
    "the school graduated more than one hundred arts majors in its first year"
    move up to (a more advanced level or position).
    "he started with motorbikes but now he's graduated to his first car"
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Yes. It’s allowed now because people said it incorrectly for so long it became language. Like “awful” or “ginormous” or “gifted.” If you read my original comment it was to state that “disappeared” was no worse than these other ones that are now “acceptable.”

If you read a wedding announcement from 40 years ago, you would not see “the groom graduated from” - you would see “the groom was graduated from”[/quote]

40 years ago was 1985 and people were absolutely not saying "sally was graduated from" on a regular basis. Are you 125 yrs old? Because my great grandmother born in 1890 didn't say this in 1985.[/quote]

NP. The PP mentioned wedding announcements, so I checked my in-laws 43 year old wedding announcement and that's what it said. Just a data point. [/quote]

I got married in 1990, and the wedding announcement in my hometown newspaper said,  "The bride was graduated from..."[/quote]

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