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micronizing

verb

present participle of micronize

as in milling

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Fungus gnats are black and are more commonly found milling around the soil of houseplants.

— Emma Jacobson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Aug. 2026
There are chef’s helpers milling about, ready to answer questions or offer some assistance.

— Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 31 July 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

Definition of pulverizing

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The process begins by crushing and grinding magnets before digestion and separation of base metals, including iron, manganese, aluminum, nickel, copper, and boron.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
But the wins have, largely, been grinding contests reliant on perfect pitching and nail-biting relief.

— Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 3 Sep. 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

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Elliott fell to 11th and is a crushing 93 points behind the lead.

— Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026
The vanishing New York chronicled in the blogs of the mid-aughts has mostly vanished, NYU has colonized large swaths of downtown, and a populace struggling to afford the crushing price of housing has arisen in its wake.

— David Freedlander, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of crushing

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Scott’s face, in this shot, is a whole novel, disintegrating into tears before being shored up again, eventually rearranged into something resembling a welcoming smile that teeters on the edge of collapse.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
The 110-floor south tower, struck shortly after the north tower by another plane, was disintegrating.

— Diane Herbst, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of disintegrating

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