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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

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

Phair felt she was atomized from the female coalitions of the ’90s, and that this co-bill might be a way to rectify that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

The TV business has been atomized into a thousand tiny pieces—clips, blips, YouTubes, TikToks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Social media, which has divided us even more, has atomized community so much that I think the pendulum has swung just about as far as it possibly can away from kin-based organizations.

From Salon ● May 26, 2025

Gaia had been separated from her source of power, charmed to sleep and then atomized in the combined explosion of Leo’s fire and Octavian’s man-made comet.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

“U.S. culture is extremely atomizing, especially in terms of how suburban neighborhoods and apartment buildings work,” they said.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2020

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