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Recent Examples of disintegration
Carcass pieces have to be preserved quickly to halt disintegration, and even if perfectly preserved, fossils may still be lost to erosion or remain hidden deep underground.
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Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2025
Yet a life guided by this precept flashed by in moments of critical distraction and disintegration.
—Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
King preached unity, but confronted disintegration.
—Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
No tears and screaming matches are forthcoming: With swift, calmly devastating strokes of omission, Li and editor Qin Yanan articulate the cruelly passive disintegration of a relationship while Yu is in physical turmoil.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Feb. 2025
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Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2025
Yet a life guided by this precept flashed by in moments of critical distraction and disintegration.
—Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
King preached unity, but confronted disintegration.
—Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
No tears and screaming matches are forthcoming: With swift, calmly devastating strokes of omission, Li and editor Qin Yanan articulate the cruelly passive disintegration of a relationship while Yu is in physical turmoil.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disintegration
Noun
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Since then, the levels have been adjusted to a maximum of 0.7 ppm or 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water, which is considered optimal for preventing tooth decay.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2025
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Weak or absent pulse Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia Some people with severe arterial blockages develop chronic limb-threatening ischemia (insufficient blood flow), which can cause severe, constant pain, gangrene (tissue decay), and even limb loss (amputation).—
Alicen Nelson MD,
Verywell Health,
27 Mar. 2025
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Following the band’s dissolution, Carpenter played drums in AWOLNATION for a decade, and also spent time playing with McKagan’s side project, Loaded, as well performing and recording with Adam Lambert, Barbarians of California, A Perfect Circle, The Exies, Ours and Black Lab, among others.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
21 Mar. 2025
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If such filaments exist widely throughout the Milky Way, and the researchers’ theory is correct, their formation and dissolution represents a cyclical balance of depletion and replenishment of molecules in the galaxy.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
20 Mar. 2025
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And someone who's having a breakdown and crying non-stop, but yelling at people to sedate her....—
Patrick Gomez,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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One, a breakdown of the federal financial aid system.—
Tinbete Ermyas,
NPR,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Disintegration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disintegration. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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