disbandment

as in dispersion
an act or process in which something scatters or is scattered the disbandment of the crowd at the end of the outdoor rock concert

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Recent Examples of disbandment In August 2025, three months after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party – commonly known as the PKK – announced its formal disbandment, a Turkish parliamentary committee overseeing reforms as part of the process met. Alpaslan Ozerdem, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
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Noun
  • The broad indexes have been steady near the flat line and just below record highs, held there by another run of extreme dispersion among groups of stocks.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The biggest challenge to governance in Japan is not far-right populism but power dispersion and the gridlock that comes with it.
    Mireya Solís, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Creating majority-Black districts in the South has been a longstanding remedy to the historic dispersal of minority populations across multiple districts to dilute their voting power.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Very little funding has actually been delivered, sources say, in part because Commerce has held up its dispersal.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Led by scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the team used a technique called resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS).
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Its back has a scattering of darker brown-black spots.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Disbandment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disbandment. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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