disintegrate
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The scouts said the object climbed quickly before appearing to disintegrate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
"I figure it'll probably disintegrate and probably nobody will ever hear it, that's what bothers me... if it rots in there before they open it."
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
They disintegrate, scattering their molecules to the stratospheric winds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Language is malleable, but it has to retain some meaning, or the boundaries of our society will disintegrate more than they already have.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
I somehow knew that if I looked, I would disintegrate into ashes.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
However, the US Geological Survey then clarified that the disaster was caused by a "glacial collapse", which is when a glacier or part of a glacier disintegrates.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
But if data disintegrates, he said, he would vote in favor of a cut.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
He adds that if we sacrifice that commitment for A.I., “you’d get to a point pretty fast where it just disintegrates and becomes the ugliest definition of the word product.”
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2024
When a low-voltage electrical stimulus is applied through the patch, the gold coating disintegrates, exposing the drug-loaded microneedles to the skin and initiating the controlled release of the drugs.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
When a wind spirit disintegrates, it creates a vacuum.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry because of a piece of foam that the astronaut estimates might have weighed about as much as a Styrofoam container.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Every robot that faceplanted, lost a limb, or disintegrated in a spray of sparks was borne away on a stretcher by human attendants with deadpan solicitude.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
By 1946, the young republic had almost disintegrated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Given how fragile it was, it may simply have disintegrated on the shelf and been overlooked or thrown away.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
A dozen monsters were sucked into the vortex and disintegrated.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
At home in New Jersey, the Overdecks’ nearly two-decade marriage was disintegrating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
A new paper looking at the chemical reactions between water and disintegrating plastic offers a potential hypothesis for how microplastics might make us sick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
They stored the item in water to keep it from disintegrating, marked down exactly where in the shipwreck it was found and placed it in a locked case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
That changed in April 2023 when unknowing construction workers unceremoniously removed a disintegrating Pinky from its eyrie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Only this time it’s my heart and not my body that’s disintegrating.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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