Example Sentences

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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

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

Others point to the atomizing effects of the internet on inter-human relations.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2018

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 Murray, D. L.