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Recent Examples of atomization
Such atomization is a metastasizing problem.
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Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
Without sound input from the agency, the vaccine-information landscape is fragmented—which, Jetelina told me, will likely accelerate the atomization of American vaccine policies, behaviors, and beliefs.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
Without sound input from the agency, the vaccine-information landscape is fragmented—which, Jetelina told me, will likely accelerate the atomization of American vaccine policies, behaviors, and beliefs.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for atomization
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Their generation came of age amid COVID, protest movements, and political polarization.—
Molly Langmuir,
The Atlantic,
25 Sep. 2025
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This configuration allows for the polarization-maintaining operation of its optical components and reduces the total number of parts, which in turn minimizes signal loss and enhances operational stability.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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The website states that the body was located on Wednesday, October 4, 1978, and the remains were unrecognizable due to decomposition.—
Veronica Fulton,
NBC news,
21 Sep. 2025
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Authorities told the outlets that the body was in a state of decomposition.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
20 Sep. 2025
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Then there’s Peg, who arrives in a bomb-diffusion suit and sets down a ticking bomb.—
Ali Barthwell,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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In 2024, Chinese researchers at Tianjin University reported 80 percent higher volumetric power density compared to state-of-the-art PEM fuel cell stacks (at the time) by eliminating gas diffusion layers entirely.—
Tejasri Gururaj,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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Mattamy Homes will ask the Mooresville Planning Board to back a rezoning for its 34-acre Brillian Grove subdivision on McCrary Road.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Sep. 2025
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In 1933, after a Los Angeles developer offered to buy the property for $320,000 to build a subdivision, John Pfeiffer sold it to California’s state parks department instead to preserve it in its natural state.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
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To do this, retail banks can apply advanced segmentation techniques that tap behavioral data and real-time patterns to illuminate the needs of customers.—
Jeffrey Todd,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Intelligent segmentation builds it.—
Footwear News,
Footwear News,
4 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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In living tissue, light scattering is common, signal contrast is often low, and reconstructing intricate features across a large volume presents a significant computational challenge.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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Its back has a scattering of darker brown-black spots.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Atomization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atomization. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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