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Recent Examples of disintegration
In most cases, the disintegration of communication occurs gradually, as intimacy and effort slip away.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
The difference between CliffsNotes and today’s computerized counterparts encapsulates the disintegration of knowledge, particularly of reading comprehension.
—Joelle Renstrom
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
The device records multiple fragments simultaneously and helps generate a full three-dimensional map of the molecular structure right before disintegration.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2025
The Covid era marks the start of America’s social collapse, eventually leading to the politically agitated George Floyd riots — a psychic disintegration that resembles Aster’s previous Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau Is Afraid, horror-movie spectacles that some impressionable people take seriously.
—Armond White, National Review, 23 July 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
The difference between CliffsNotes and today’s computerized counterparts encapsulates the disintegration of knowledge, particularly of reading comprehension.
—Joelle Renstrom
august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
The device records multiple fragments simultaneously and helps generate a full three-dimensional map of the molecular structure right before disintegration.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2025
The Covid era marks the start of America’s social collapse, eventually leading to the politically agitated George Floyd riots — a psychic disintegration that resembles Aster’s previous Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau Is Afraid, horror-movie spectacles that some impressionable people take seriously.
—Armond White, National Review, 23 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disintegration
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Based on the level of decomposition, officials estimated she had been dumped from the overpass at least a month earlier, according to the release.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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Before storing the bodies in the crawl space, Gacy used lime to hasten the bodies' decomposition.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
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Despite years of legal battles over the relocations, more than 150,000 bodies were exhumed from the 1920s to the early 1940s for the trip to Colma, each in various stages of decay.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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Why didn’t evolution produce a more dependable version of the human body, less prone to malfunction and decay?—
Lucinda Rosenfeld,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, a member of the leading council, went on to aid President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's dissolution of the council, but later came to oppose the move as the rift between two men deepened.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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Recovery already underway While the impacts of Melissa are still occurring, recovery is expected to be a greater challenge than usual this year with the dissolution of US AID.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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Racial and other demographic breakdowns of the 3,000 students retained were not immediately made available.—
Caroline Beck,
IndyStar,
5 Nov. 2025
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The Upper East Side had the highest total number of votes per neighborhood based on the Times breakdown at 90,390.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Disintegration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disintegration. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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