micronizing

present participle of micronize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for micronizing
Verb
  • Videos posted on Facebook by the Radical Reform Movement showed a small group of protesters milling around a barrier set up on a two-lane road running through a barren landscape on a bright sunny day.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 June 2026
  • No road closures are scheduled, but high traffic volume, motorcades, special vehicles and thousands of pedestrians milling about downtown will be just as prohibitive.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 15 June 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • No previous American leader could plausibly have presided over the scene of a tattooed Brazilian fighter in a black cowboy hat and Lycra shorts running out of the White House, saluted by honor guards, with the intent of pulverizing another human being.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
Verb
  • Yet Marketplace Pulse research shows only 23% of sellers are growing revenue and improving margins at the same time; the rest are either grinding or distressed.
    Dani Nadel, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The grinding process will leave a large mound of chips mixed with soil that will need to be removed and replaced with topsoil.
    Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The crushing win followed England's own big win at Lord's and sends the series to a decider in Nottingham starting on Thursday.
    ABC News, ABC News, 21 June 2026
  • Then the two in the final three holes that sealed the crushing near-miss.
    Nick Pietruszkiewicz, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026
Verb
  • Right now, the rings furthest from the planet are disintegrating and drifting into space.
    David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
  • The damage from our disintegrating democracy demands attention — and now.
    Elizabeth Keifer, Hartford Courant, 29 May 2026
Verb
  • Both Ghana and England will walk away with a point after Ghana managed to hold off England in a heart-pounding final few minutes of stoppage time.
    Monica Alba, NBC news, 24 June 2026
  • Each time, my heart would start pounding.
    Alex Cuadros, ProPublica, 23 June 2026
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“Micronizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/micronizing. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.

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