micronizing

present participle of micronize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for micronizing
Verb
  • The week his Tiny Desk set hit YouTube, the song was milling around outside the top 10 of Adult R&B Airplay, missing in action on Rhythmic and just sneaking into the top 30 of Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Additionally, Jerry had no way of knowing if the various strangers milling around on the cold soundstage were from the production (supportive, hopeful) or from the studio (skeptical, judgmental).
    Howard Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Gently muddling the mint and lime and not pulverizing them preserves their flavor and keeps the drink crisp rather than bitter.
    Aly Walansky, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, the army became bogged down in a grinding war of attrition, and the West was stunned by Moscow’s poor battlefield performance.
    David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Although Moscow's ground forces are being chewed up in the grinding war in Ukraine's east, Russia has wound up its defense industry to backfill its constant equipment losses and regular strikes across Ukraine.
    Ellie Cook — reporting from Prague, Czech Republic, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Jerry Jeudy makes far too much money to wreck possessions with two drops, one that killed a drive and another that resulted in a crushing interception.
    Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • This is a big deal as the new process requires no crushing pressure or scorching heat.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As the Snowball catastrophically collapsed once more, superhot oceans of meltwater, just offshore from rapidly disintegrating mile-thick ice sheets, drove some of the wildest weather in Earth history.
    Peter Brannen August 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Hoss — who’s sensual and full of sad, smiling bewilderment without ever disintegrating into ditziness — makes a mature, deeply poignant Ranevskaya.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • And the thump, thump, thumping of her brother’s hands pounding a heavy bag.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 30 Aug. 2025
  • These unofficial remixes, uploaded from unremarkable accounts, create a kind of Satie-esque audio overdose, pounding the band’s melody into abstraction, pure stimulus.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Debenhams Group, the British retail conglomerate formerly known as Boohoo Group, is mulling the potential sale of PrettyLittleThing and the closure of another distribution center in a bid to drive a turnaround of the company’s declining fortunes.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Hyperliquid, the perpetual futures giant, is mulling an upgrade that will let anyone spin up a new perp market for virtually any asset.
    Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Consider Pat, a senior manager whose multigenerational team was fracturing.
    Dana Williams, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Remarkably, the one issue that once unified evangelicals, neoconservatives, and grassroots Republicans—unwavering support for Israel—is now fracturing.
    Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Micronizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/micronizing. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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