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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’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

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

“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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2018

When the fan nozzle is used, 3 to 5 lbs. more pressure should be applied to the material container and from 5 to 8 lbs. more atomizing or spraying pressure used.

From Advanced Toy Making for Schools by David M. Mitchell