disintegrates

present tense third-person singular of disintegrate
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Recent Examples of disintegrates The debris collides with Earth's atmosphere at high speed and disintegrates, creating fiery and colorful streaks in the sky. Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 12 Aug. 2025 Recruits typically come from deprived areas, and as Russia’s economy disintegrates in slow motion, the bonanza offered by the army looks increasingly appealing. David Hambling, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025 What about uploading your brain to the cloud as your body disintegrates and becomes irrelevant? Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disintegrates
Verb
  • The calculation, called the Fourier transform, decomposes any function into its parts.
    Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As the summer season grinds to a near halt, several holdover titles rounded out the top five.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 Aug. 2025
  • As Russia’s war machine grinds forward in eastern Ukraine, there is another offensive being waged far beyond the front line.
    Rachel Wilson, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Communities across the world have started recognizing how the glow of artificial light disrupts not only our view of the cosmos but also the plants, animals, and ecosystems that have long relied on Earth’s natural rhythm of day and night.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025
  • When a cyber incident disrupts flight operations, supply chain logistics or manufacturing processes, the cascading effects extend far beyond the immediate costs of remediation.
    Dan Sorensen, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This could include some sort of novel, exotic form of mass or energy, a non-standard form of dark matter or dark energy that decays or otherwise interacts, or a modification to one or more laws of physics.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Competitive advantage now decays in months, not years.
    Jason Wingard, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The man simply pounds the zone.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Virgo has Steal Away begin as a feminist drama that eventually breaks conventions by morphing into something of a horror film, with even a pinch of the supernatural.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The campaign breaks Thursday in tandem with the retail drop of the Passepartout collection for fall 2025, strong on Lurex jersey dresses and sweaters with a labyrinth motif that gives an animal-print vibe.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • If Britain continues down the path of criminalizing thought and prayer, the alliance risks being reduced to polite diplomacy while its moral core rots away.
    Lois McLatchie Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • However, Dort’s fate is sealed after the chandelier crashes down and crushes him to death.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • First crushes, first loves, the beautiful days of summer, and heartbreak are what made this book an instant hit with teens.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Disintegrates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disintegrates. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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