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micronizing

verb

present participle of micronize

as in milling

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Window closing to find survivors These are the kinds of scenes playing out across La Guaira state, with people milling around in the streets after being left homeless, uncertain of what to do next.

— Fernando Narro Roman, NPR, 28 June 2026
In addition to the extra security guards milling about, many of the areas that were formerly open to the public were closed off by fences and guarded exits.

— Seamus Bozeman Follow, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026

Definition of milling

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The garbanzos are sometimes roasted before pulverizing, lending the yellow powder a richer, nuttier taste.

— Randi Gollin, Martha Stewart, 25 June 2026
But the biggest beef to be had is in Sarnoski’s insistence to bludgeon us with pulverizing violence, which grows tiresome and repetitive in the carnage-spewing initial 30 minutes.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 June 2026

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The hike includes the park’s east side on the Grasslands Trail, which leads to a Kumeyaay grinding rocks site and the scenic Old Mission Dam overlook.

— Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2026
Those particles may have been grinding in the joint, causing mechanical wear on the cobalt-chromium femoral head that released cobalt into the surrounding tissue and bloodstream.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 2 July 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

Definition of powdering

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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

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But apparently, not even a crushing soccer loss could compete with the power of American hospitality.

— Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
Australia reigned supreme in the T20 World Cup final with a crushing seven-wicket victory over England, completed with 17 balls to spare in front of a Lord’s crowd of 28,887, a record for women’s cricket.

— Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 July 2026

Definition of crushing

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That changed in April 2023 when unknowing construction workers unceremoniously removed a disintegrating Pinky from its eyrie.

— Ryan Steven Green, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
The experiments have shown how a self-repair mechanism enables the spindle to stabilize itself under force and avoid disintegrating.

— Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 29 June 2026

Definition of disintegrating

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America is better when Paul Skenes is embarrassing hitters with Livvy in the stands pounding Miller Lites.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
The heart-pounding encounter ended with the calf reunited with its mother, dramatic photos on a cellphone — and the couple continuing on to catch brook trout.

— Kate Brumback, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

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