dematerializing

present participle of dematerialize

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of dematerializing She’s represented here by a woman dematerializing headfirst, seemingly outlived only by her pendulous breasts, and a sparse landscape where a spectral figure peeks up from the bottom edge. Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026 In a dematerializing economy—where value has shifted from physical assets to intangibles such as data, software, and capabilities—traditional strategy frameworks no longer provide enough guidance. Rita McGrath, Harvard Business Review, 4 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dematerializing
Verb
  • One week after Connecticut reserved $500 million from last year’s surplus to potentially replace vanishing federal dollars for human services, surging revenues already have replenished much of the state’s coffers.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The idea was to memorialize a vanishing Eden and the end of his five years of vagabonding, working on rivers, paying no rent.
    Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The workflows are versioned, reused, and improved rather than disappearing after a single interaction, and Sunny regularly coordinates with other agents.
    Will Drover, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Africa is warming faster than the global average, and a UN climate report said that Mount Kenya’s glaciers are disappearing particularly fast, losing more than half their area in the last decade.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That's particularly true given a rising risk of JetBlue underperforming on RASM and the fading likelihood of its consolidation with other airlines, Godyn said.
    Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026
  • That workplace is fading, and the controls have not kept pace.
    Houman Akhavan, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The group battled cultural bias, personal struggles, and melting cheese in pursuit of respect, redemption and a historic victory.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Crews found flames that were pushing out of the second and third floors and melting siding on an adjoining building, Coughlin said.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026

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“Dematerializing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dematerializing. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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