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atomization

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as in polarization

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Recent Examples of atomization Chinamaxxing romanticizes things that feel structurally out of reach at home — compact, affordable-looking apartments; public transit that works; streets safe to walk at night; multigenerational households as an antidote to loneliness; communal meals as an antidote to atomization. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026 The atomization of society begins with your morning coffee. — Jakub Grygiel, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2026 Neoliberalism wants atomization, managing our own human capital. — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026 But his real breakthrough went beyond atomization. — Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026 The problem is the infernal force of atomization that is running all over us. — James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025 Such atomization is a metastasizing problem. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025

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Noun

McGann Jantzen’s sentiment comes as more than 40% of officials from communities with more than 50,000 people report being affected by polarization, according to a 2024 study by the Carnegie Foundation of New York and Civic Pulse.

— Corey Schmidt July 6, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2026
Signs of division show through Yet, for some Americans, the anniversary served only as a reminder of the country’s deep political polarization.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 5 July 2026

Definition of polarization

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Adidas Virginia Watermoc is a slip-on shoe with all the appearances of grip and water dispersion.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
When this happens, the oven continues to generate microwaves that rapidly change frequency as the power dies off over a fraction of a second, mimicking dispersion.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 26 June 2026

Definition of dispersion

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Maintain Compost Bins Compost piles need to be kept damp in order to accelerate organic decomposition.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 3 July 2026
Authorities also found numerous dead animals in advanced stages of decomposition, including hundreds of chickens that investigators said had been discarded in bags and fed to the dogs, according to The Straits Times and The Standard.

— Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026

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The eastern flank of the fire also made a significant push north, but fire crews were able to protect the Glade Ranch subdivision and Benchmark Lookout, Cook said.

— Katie Langford, Denver Post, 4 July 2026
Superior Court Judge Alex Manning issued the order June 15 prohibiting the county’s top administrator from getting close to Amit Mehrotra, a neighbor in the Ellard subdivision in Roswell, and from harassing or intimidating Mehrotra or his family.

— Reed Williams, AJC.com, 1 July 2026

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Moving From Audience Segments To Individual Context Traditional healthcare marketing ran on segmentation—physicians bucketed by specialty, geography, prescribing patterns.

— Kamya Elawadhi, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
The highest tier, Premium, starts at $80 per month and adds customizable automation and segmentation, Google Ads manager, 500 SMS messages, revenue reporting, and SEO recommendations.

— Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026

Definition of segmentation

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About half of the arrests were people who remained on the Peninsula after police issued a dispersal order, authorities said.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
The Israeli military told NPR that during an operation in Nablus, Palestinians had thrown rocks at the soldiers who responded with what the military called crowd-dispersal measures and later with live fire.

— Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 26 June 2026

Definition of dispersal

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The result was a scattering of highly radioactive material across a 600-km (373-mile) area in Canada, from Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories southeastward into portions of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

— David Szondy July 07, New Atlas, 8 July 2026
What links certain mathematical models of traffic flow, shallow-water waves, and quantum particle scattering?

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2026

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