"disappearance by" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It typically means the act of disappearing or the state of being disappeared or missing. Example: The disappearance by Tom remains a mystery to his family and friends.
She distracts Mama from worries about Daddy's disappearance by playing human dartboard for catty comments about her love life.
On Thursday, police will mark four weeks since Alice's disappearance by carrying out a high-profile reconstruction.
On Thursday police will mark four weeks since Alice's disappearance by carrying out a reconstruction of her last known moments.
ExcerptsSelections from "Anatomy of a Disappearance," by Hisham Matar; "The Art of Fielding," by Chad Harbach; and other books.
The disappearance by Claudio Bieler for most of the last month or so is concerning, but his dip in form means it hasn't killed KC.
On 21 April, Reuters reported that Regeni had been picked up on the night of his disappearance by Egyptian police in downtown Cairo, near the Nasser metro stop.
So soldiers can escape trial for disappearances by producing the bodies.
There's a novel I've returned to over and over in life — "Disappearances," by Howard Frank Mosher.
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission opened its own investigation into the case for possible "serious human rights abuses", such as extra-judicial executions and forced disappearances by Iguala city police.
The 2004 annual report documents human rights abuses in 155 countries including execution, detention without judicial process, hostage taking and "disappearances" by state agents.
Under previous governments, "there were one or two cases, but not the systematic disappearances by the intelligence agencies under Musharraf," said Iqbal Haider, secretary general of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, an independent nonprofit organization.
