as in dispersion
an act or process in which something scatters or is scattered
the disbandment of the crowd at the end of the outdoor rock concert
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Recent Examples of disbandment
The catalyst for the group’s disbandment was the capture and looming grand jury testimony of Perfidia (Teyana Taylor), Willa’s mother.
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Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
In August 2025, three months after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party – commonly known as the PKK – announced its formal disbandment, a Turkish parliamentary committee overseeing reforms as part of the process met.
—Alpaslan Ozerdem, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
In August 2025, three months after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party – commonly known as the PKK – announced its formal disbandment, a Turkish parliamentary committee overseeing reforms as part of the process met.
—Alpaslan Ozerdem, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disbandment
Noun
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Powell is presiding over a Fed that has come under intense criticism from the White House and is seeing an unusually wide dispersion in views among officials.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
23 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
Noun
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Perhaps one of the most interesting seed dispersal tactics is the ones that explode.—
Markis Hill,
Kansas City Star,
26 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
Noun
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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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“Disbandment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disbandment. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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