atomize
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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
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.
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
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
Alexis de Tocqueville warned that without voluntary associations—churches, civic groups, local organizations—individuals would become atomized and government would fill the vacuum with what he called “soft despotism.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 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
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
Perhaps consensus was easier before all information was siloed, but America just keeps growing in size as our niches keep atomizing.
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2019
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.
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