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

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022

When you’re in the big city, you can atomize, right?

From The Verge ● May 31, 2018

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

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2017

The effect parallels the subsequent crumbling of Vereen’s career and also Arceneaux’s attempt to atomize the damaging event.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2017

In these motors it is necessary to atomize the liquid fuel by means of aspired air, in order to produce an explosive, gaseous mixture.

From Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by R. E. Mathot

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

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2022

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

"Spidermann" is a self-described "hastily constructed abstract musical" that atomizes the premise and logic of the Marvel Comics superhero.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2011

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

But as the audience continues to be atomized by the growing number of streaming options, sports are more valuable than ever for advertisers who want to reach a mass audience.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 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

But I think it was also resistance to the niching and atomizing of life and time itself by social media, tabloid scandal, and other forms of goldfish-like attention.

From Slate ● Dec. 23, 2015

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