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as in dissolving
to cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization
the university disbanded the committee after the report had been submitted the rock group disbanded upon finishing their farewell tour
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as in dispersing
to cause (members of a group) to move widely apart
police disbanded the rioters with tear gas
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Recent Examples of disbanding
With the group only set to work together for two-and-a-half years, IZ*ONE managed to sell nearly three million records across their K- and J-pop releases before officially disbanding in April 2021.
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Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
The Turtles would release two more albums — 1968’s The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands and 1969’s Turtle Soup — before disbanding in 1970.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
The remaining trio carried on briefly before disbanding for good a year later.
—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
After disbanding in 2012, the group reunited in 2016 and has since toured on a not quite annual basis.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Pan Zhanle, an Olympic champion swimmer, was praised for disbanding his official fan group after his success at the Paris Games overwhelmed him with a surge of new followers.
—Peter Guo, NBC news, 3 Aug. 2025
Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
The Turtles would release two more albums — 1968’s The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands and 1969’s Turtle Soup — before disbanding in 1970.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
The remaining trio carried on briefly before disbanding for good a year later.
—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
After disbanding in 2012, the group reunited in 2016 and has since toured on a not quite annual basis.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Pan Zhanle, an Olympic champion swimmer, was praised for disbanding his official fan group after his success at the Paris Games overwhelmed him with a surge of new followers.
—Peter Guo, NBC news, 3 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disbanding
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Billions of microbes are hard at work dissolving compounds in this giant mound of crushed ore from Escondida, the biggest copper mine on the planet.—
Vanessa Bates Ramirez,
Scientific American,
1 Oct. 2025
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Evening light spills across the pollinator gardens—alive with bees, hummingbirds, and the occasional wandering chicken—before dissolving into the shimmer of the Mackinac Bridge.—
Christine Chitnis,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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Many others have also left quietly, dispersing across continents, carrying stories like mine.—
Sonny Alejandra,
Time,
18 Sep. 2025
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But the protoplanetary disks around these massive stars only last around 2 million years before dispersing — and that's not quite enough time to create gas giants.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Disbanding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disbanding. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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