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atomize

[at-uh-mahyz] / ˈæt əˌmaɪz /


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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

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

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

As the world around them becomes more atomized, I find that they’re increasingly interested in connection.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 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

Under such a paradigm history must be sterilized of analysis and ultimately atomized into unrelated instances to make an eternal present, divorced from any transformative potential.

From Salon Feb. 25, 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

George M. Smyth, Brooklyn, N. Y.—This invention consists in the combination of an air compressor, an air reservoir, and a receptacle for the liquid, and an arrangement of pipes and nozzles for atomizing the liquid.

From Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures by Various




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