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micronizing

verb

present participle of micronize

as in milling

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And who might have been milling around in the area during the Second World War?

— Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2026
The park features a food truck plaza, where visitors milling about on Friday could grab treats.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 23 Oct. 2026

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Outside, addicts wander peg-legged in the pulverizing triple-digit late summer heat, past attorneys in cream sport coats and copper-red ties.

— Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
Portions of its skeleton featured pulverizing bite marks and missing chunks that all bore the hallmark signs of another predatory attack.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 July 2026

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For decades, junior accountants learned their trade by reconciling accounts, manually entering data, and grinding through the month-end close.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
This innovation—the mass manufacture of ammonia, vastly more efficient than scraping guano off remote islands or grinding mountains of bison bones—removed the most critical nutrient bottleneck in global agriculture.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of grinding

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Traditional methods such as powdering, cyanoacrylate fuming, or ninhydrin rely on sweat and sebaceous residues (a mixture of skin oil and dead skin) left behind on a surface.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 23 Nov. 2025
Posada illustrated her in ostentatious attire to satirize the way the garbanceras attempted to pass as upper-class by powdering their faces and wearing fashionable French attire.

— Mathew Sandoval, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023

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To accomplish this, Licklider proposed atomizing books into discrete blocks of information — exactly as Otlet had suggested more than half a century before, but now assisted by digital tools rather than index cards.

— Big Think, Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
The mentality is just one example of how young people in China are reacting and adapting to a fast-changing and often atomizing urban society.

— Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 21 Jan. 2026

Definition of atomizing

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That album, like the Dio Sabbath classics before it, was fine-tuned for metalhead appreciation, thick with crushing riffs and dramatic vocals.

— Brad Sanders, Pitchfork, 27 Oct. 2026
Elsewhere, Leipzig bounced back from heavy defeats against Bayern Munich and Real Madrid by crushing Elversberg 4-0.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of crushing

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The stars have grown lethargic and limp, with lesions spread across their bodies, their arms falling off or disintegrating.

— Joseph Ogilvy, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
Segan’s thriller takes as its central dramatic question the tension between the analog and the digital, the New York that’s coming into being in the 2020s and the New York that’s disintegrating to bring it to life.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of disintegrating

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Groups of young people were seen dancing with music pounding through the crowd as meters away tear gas billowed into the air.

— Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
At the moment, the good detective is strutting around the float, kicking the wheels and pounding the floorboards.

— Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

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