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Recent Examples of disassembly
To take on the task, the company is using AI and robotics for both the process of the redesign and for the disassembly.
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Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
The new lamp means there's no disassembly (or DIY experimentation) necessary.
—Sarah Everett, The Spruce, 13 Jan. 2026
Each project begins with a complete disassembly.
—Paul Ratner, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
Love the brilliant disassembly and assembly.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
The word was used in English as early as 1865, in the context of building, architecture, and engineering, referring to the disassembly or dismantling of structures.
—Brené Brown, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
Assembly or disassembly takes under two minutes.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
The new lamp means there's no disassembly (or DIY experimentation) necessary.
—Sarah Everett, The Spruce, 13 Jan. 2026
Each project begins with a complete disassembly.
—Paul Ratner, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
Love the brilliant disassembly and assembly.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
The word was used in English as early as 1865, in the context of building, architecture, and engineering, referring to the disassembly or dismantling of structures.
—Brené Brown, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
Assembly or disassembly takes under two minutes.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disassembly
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In fact, adding brown material like toilet paper tubes will even speed up the decomposition process and balance out your green kitchen waste.—
Michelle Mastro,
The Spruce,
19 Feb. 2026
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Officials later confirmed Arakawa showed signs of advanced decomposition.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon , Larry Fink,
FOXNews.com,
18 Feb. 2026
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Jones’s personal style — a quirky, at times ill-fitting wardrobe of short skirts, cleavage-revealing tops, mumsy cardigans, granny pants and long scarves — helped cement her character into an unforgettable part of noughties pop culture history.—
Kati Chitrakorn,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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The top is extra supportive thanks to an extended bottom and somehow offers cleavage without flimsiness.—
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
7 Feb. 2026
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This is a tunnel to nowhere and just a part of a much larger plan costing tens of billions more, but segmentation isn’t permitted under the law for funding purposes.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
6 Feb. 2026
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In health and wellness, machine learning already powers drug discovery, patient segmentation, and outcome tracking.—
Aisha Alves,
Rolling Stone,
3 Feb. 2026
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In 2016, dozens of residents from a subdivision about 20 miles from the Boarmans’ home sued oil giant ConocoPhillips, alleging that years of improper oil field waste disposal had poisoned their drinking water.—
Nick Bowlin,
The Frontier,
16 Feb. 2026
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The gates at Berry Parkway were erected sometime in the 1920s as the entryway to an early subdivision.—
Jesse Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2026
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Investigators have reason to believe that dismemberment may have been involved in the disposal of Isadora’s body.—
Sarah Dahlberg,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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The family of a Brooklyn mother whose body was found stuffed in a black plastic bag inside a NYCHA complex trash compactor room is desperate to know how a fun night out with friends ended with her death and dismemberment.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Public relationship milestones may arrive—engagements, breakups, or defining conversations that put love front and center.—
Christina Pérez,
Vogue,
16 Feb. 2026
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But far from throwing chocolates at her TV like Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, Nicole Kidman looks just as carefree and in love with life as any romantic lead just before the third-act breakup and grand gesture portion of events.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
14 Feb. 2026
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Decarbonizing air travel The purification and fractionation steps are being developed jointly by scientists from TU Graz, the University of Zagreb in Croatia, and Portugal’s national energy laboratory (LNEG).—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Dec. 2025
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Additionally, Scotto is optimistic about MPLX delivering mid-single-digit EBITDA growth beyond 2026, driven by contributions from the Eiger pipeline and its Gulf Coast fractionation and export facilities, along with potential mergers and acquisitions.—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
30 Nov. 2025
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Most of this work has focused on improving the materials themselves – reducing dissolution in the electrolyte and increasing electrical conductivity.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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Intertextuality is described by Scarlett Barton in perhaps the opposite way, as linked to Roland Barthes’ observation that the author is dead, and that the text is the dissolution of every kind of voice, every beginning and core.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Disassembly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disassembly. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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