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Recent Examples of micronizeThankfully they’ve have been upgraded in recent years to be micronized so the white cast isn’t as noticeable.—Holly Carter, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
The debris – space rocks known as meteoroids – collides with Earth's atmosphere at high speed and disintegrates, creating fiery and colorful streaks in the sky, according to NASA.
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Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
The meteor — which is thought to be a small chunk of a much larger asteroid — was probably too small and traveled too fast to survive atmospheric entry and instead disintegrated entirely, leaving no parts of it to fall to the ground in the form of meteorites.
The packets are filled with powdered, crystalized lime and taste like a fresh squeeze.
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Abbey Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 May 2026
Each day, an FX makeup team used around 400 prosthetics on the passengers, and made 3,000 gel capsules filled with sodium bicarbonate, citric acid and red powdered Kool-Aid.
As the mitigation work continued, a contractor took off his socks and shoes and rolled up his pants to his knees and proceeded to wade into the pool to place an ozone nanobubble tube as tourists and locals milled about on a sunny morning.
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Katie Vogel,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
Videos posted on Facebook by the Radical Reform Movement showed a small group of protesters milling around a barrier set up on a two-lane road running through a barren landscape on a bright sunny day.
After Mexico suffered a crushing 3-0 defeat to Sweden, their hopes of advancing hinged on South Korea’s team pulling off an unlikely victory over Germany.
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Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
Suddenly, a driver is faced with the possibility of being crushed by a mammal the size of a grand piano—and its massive antlers.
And don't pulverize clay into dust—this worsens soil compaction.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
14 June 2026
Among other curiosities were Matthew Howard and Joseph Pereira cheerfully pulverizing Philip Glass’ Fantasy Concerto for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, as well as Boris Allakhverdyan suavely ghosting jazz legend Artie Shaw in his Clarinet Concerto.
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Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
Rather than allowing operators to build national scale—which might create cost advantages that stabilize competition—regulation fragments the market into local fiefdoms where economies of scale are extraordinarily difficult to capture.
Republicans are mulling a sizable $350 billion plus-up for Hegseth on par with the White House’s budget request that the GOP could pass on its own, through the reconciliation process that allows majority rule over potential objections from Democrats.
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Lisa Mascaro,
Fortune,
20 June 2026
Indeed, OpenAI is mulling slashing prices, the Journal reported, while some customers are only using highly capable models for complex tasks, relying on cheaper open-source ones for most functions, saving up to 95% on outlays.