disbandment

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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Noun
  • 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
  • Its optical construction includes 14 elements in 11 groups, with extra-low dispersion glass and aspherical elements to minimize chromatic aberration and distortion.
    Harry Bennett, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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  • Very little funding has actually been delivered, sources say, in part because Commerce has held up its dispersal.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Even worse, Republicans ended the CTC’s monthly dispersal and actually shrunk how many children can get the CTC by 2 million.
    Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
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  • Unlike conventional luminescent or scattering-based concentrators, which often suffer from visual distortion, low efficiency, and poor scalability, the new CUSC delivers broadband, polarization-selective diffraction and efficient waveguiding while preserving complete visual clarity.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • 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 9 Sep. 2025.

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