dismembering

present participle of dismember

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Recent Examples of dismembering Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts man accused of dismembering his wife, was attacked in jail on Thursday, weeks ahead of his murder trial. Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dismembering
Verb
  • Ride-hailing giants Uber and Bolt are disrupting Kenya’s lucrative safari market with new services that are driving fears of price cuts among traditional tour operators.
    Martin K.N Siele, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Cuban founded Cost Plus Drugs, a similar direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform, in 2022 with the goal of disrupting the health care industry.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The beginning of a solution, Zionism’s dismantling, requires a more granular understanding of its founding logic.
    Book Marks October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This is a sister organization to the Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025—a sweeping conservative policy blueprint aimed at reshaping the federal government by expanding presidential power, dismantling parts of the civil service, and rolling back regulations across agencies.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The therapy works by breaking a cycle.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
  • For those on the cusp of breaking into senior football, however, conditions are in a state of flux.
    Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For Allen, this legal tool disproportionately undermines Black communities, eroding generational wealth and disconnecting families from their neighborhoods.
    Essence, Essence, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The update promises to address user complaints about the newest iPhones mysteriously disconnecting from Wi-Fi without reason.
    Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Perhaps few other cities have experienced the consequences of a fracturing American consensus as sharply as Portland, Oregon.
    Keith Wilson, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The global energy transition is forging ahead, fracturing old trade alliances and generating new forms of geopolitical leverage that all companies need to be more attuned to, JPMorgan believes.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Mahama worked with a team to complete this project, unloading four trucks of scrap metal, tirelessly extracting the matter, and disassembling railway cars.
    Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Lab groups could detect gas generation or particle fracturing without disassembling cells.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Since then, the Internet has gone about its immemorial business of destroying all incumbent forms of media; not content with vampirizing print, the digital space began sucking the life from pay-TV a dozen years ago.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Critics say returning the company without meaningful payment undercuts accountability and the compensatory purpose of the judgments; others note trustees and Judge Lopez have to avoid value-destroying, prolonged processes.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Emptying the dust cup was simple thanks to clear arrow indicators, although detaching it from the wand first added a small inconvenience.
    Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
  • That means hanging out with old friends less, making more of an effort to meet new ones, letting go of some old hobbies to explore new ones, detaching from my hometown and maybe even getting a new job.
    Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Dismembering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismembering. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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