Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for micronizing
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Suzuki was received as a celebrity by ex-Moonies milling around on the grass.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026 -
Dozens of people were milling about.—
Vanessa Romo,
NPR,
14 Jan. 2026
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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
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According to a new study, this effect is gradually pulverizing the asteroids that make up the belt.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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Hana starts taking home a rib cage here, a few bones there, grinding them up with a mortar and pestle to make her own DIY version of the gray.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Feb. 2026
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Part of the issue is that many cardholders assume that there's only one way to deal with their growing credit card debt, and that's grinding through years of payments while the interest charges continue to compound.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
2 Feb. 2026
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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
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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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So she’s taken over a crushing assignment.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
1 Feb. 2026
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Oklahoma reached the 2025 College Football Playoff after several uneven seasons, only to suffer a crushing home loss after leading Alabama 17-0 in the opening round.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2026
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As in a seventeenth-century poem by John Donne, George Herbert, or Andrew Marvell, the fraught human body is a microcosm, a mirror to the larger disintegrating world spirit.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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When Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s army was disintegrating in the face of a rapid advance by Syrian opposition forces under the command of Ahmad al-Sharaa, all the Russians were willing to do was launch a few symbolic airstrikes and help organize Assad’s getaway to a life in exile.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2026
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Rain pounding against windows and ocean waves crashing into the foundations of shoreline homes with wind gusts of over 60 mph — what may sound like a stormy September day in Florida took place in Milford during Tropical Storm Isaias in August 2020.—
Maleena Muzio,
Hartford Courant,
31 Jan. 2026
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Russia has been pounding Ukraine's critical infrastructure, hoping to wear down public resistance to the war while leaving many around the country having to endure the dead of winter without heat.—
AAMER MADHANI AND SUSIE BLANN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Micronizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/micronizing. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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