micronizing

present participle of micronize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for micronizing
Verb
  • Roughly 60 of us were gathered in an industrial event space on graduation day at Harvard, looking eight floors down from an outdoor deck at the students milling below in caps and gowns.
    Nick Stern, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
  • And those visitors milling around its upper reaches aren’t going anywhere fast.
    Barry Neild, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After pulverizing Gaza so relentlessly that a country founded in the shadow of the Holocaust was judged by experts as complicit in genocide, Israel’s military and intelligence apparatus also struck out elsewhere—Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Syria.
    Karl Vick, Time, 11 Oct. 2025
  • According to a new study, this effect is gradually pulverizing the asteroids that make up the belt.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And when daily wear and tear was simulated – through continuous electric-toothbrush abrasion equivalent to about a year of brushing, as well as chewing and grinding – the teeth actually had superior resistance to wear, fracture and acid attack compared with natural enamel.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Nov. 2025
  • After more than a decade grinding in the pop machine, something about Zara Larsson finally clicked this summer.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Even with that crushing blow, the totality of Hoffman’s postseason was excellent.
    Chad Jennings, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Higher taxes crushing working families.
    Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • By the time it was all set up, the whole cold, disintegrating place was threaded with lights and lines, flickering everywhere, black and red, the sheer quantity somehow terrifying and embracing at once.
    Blair Braverman, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
  • This difference sounds small, but preventing a few tenths of a degree of warming could keep polar ice caps from completely disintegrating, coral reefs from collapsing and other tipping points from triggering.
    Syris Valentine, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Afterwards, Munchak says agents pulled their car in front of hers and surrounded the vehicle, pounding on it, telling her to open the doors and pointing a gun at her.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The metal giants are currently pounding their way through a long-overdue tour of Australia and New Zealand, a six-date coast-to-coast swing for the M72 World Tour.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Schneider was noncommittal about the decision to start Bichette over the past couple of days, mulling it until finally announcing it hours before the game.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • And some are mulling a radical restructuring of routes.
    Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In early October, the former reality star shared with her fans that her dog ran into her, fracturing her leg.
    Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This discovery ultimately ends up completely fracturing the Dark Hearts.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Micronizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/micronizing. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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