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Others, like Vance, have warned that AI has the potential to further atomize society and alienate individuals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Binge-watching and the content boom helped atomize American culture.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022

When you take physical communities and you atomize them, they’re not always as nourishing as the physical world.

From The Verge ● Nov. 16, 2021

This may change things or it could completely atomize the island once and for all.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2017

Q. Are you aware that in course of time the atomizer port will become worn too large and will discharge too large a volume of steam to properly atomize, and the remedy?

From The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads by Anonymous

Focusing on individual privacy protections isolates and atomizes us, however, while power rests in collective bodies.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2022

“These procedures call for fuel to be dumped over designated unpopulated areas, typically at higher altitudes so the fuel atomizes and disperses before it reaches the ground.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2020

The company spent the past five years engineering a showerhead that atomizes water, creating tiny droplets the company says cover 10 times more surface area than a normal shower to.

From Time ● Aug. 11, 2015

Lawrence; "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It" is not about yoga; "Zona" reflectively atomizes the film "Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky. 

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2015

It's that music can evaporate blue moods even as it atomizes them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Fourth Amendment, the majority reminds us, cannot be atomized.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

In its most recent season, “60 Minutes” attracted an average of more than 9 million viewers External link per show, an anomaly in today’s atomized media environment.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

“In an atomized society,” Ms. Liu observes, “where it’s easy to simply withdraw and isolate oneself, the crucial challenge was to do just the opposite: to reach out, reconnect, and rebuild community.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Late night TV, which once had to be watched, well, late at night — it had a sort of circadian component — has been atomized into clips to watch when you like.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025

Everything was turned to a fine, atomized dust that hung suspended in the air for a second before slowly settling to earth.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

The New York Times is “disbanding” its sports department, atomizing the staff and pushing readers to pay extra for sports coverage by The Athletic, a money-losing news startup it bought last year for $550 million.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

But it does serve a purpose, acting as an effective salve for the very problems that these atomizing platforms create, the overflow of targeted information and stimulation.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021

As Rushkoff puts it: "those of us without the funding to disown our humanity. . . don't have to use technology in such antisocial, atomizing ways."

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2020

Luxury as we know it—as a consumer market, as a concept—is atomizing.

From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2014

The atomizing method carried to its logical extreme demands that not only 'sensations' but also 'thoughts' should be essentially disconnected, and then, of course, no thinking can cohere.

From Pragmatism by D. L. Murray