disassemble
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Even an 11-minute musical performance could still require the break to be extended, given the time likely required to set up and disassemble the show.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Everything that the casual moviegoer would consider “wrong” about Jenkin’s approach is what makes his films so transcendently jarring as they seemingly disassemble in front of our eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
"However, there have been stacks created on parts of Mam Tor, and staff and volunteers will infrequently disassemble any found."
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
The project to disassemble and eventually rebuild the chapel is expected to take four years.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
And when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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The encroaching flames caused the main facility that disassembles America’s nuclear arsenal to pause operations Tuesday night, but it was open for normal work Wednesday.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
“This is art that summons, that creates what should be and disassembles what should not,” Toni Morrison wrote in the introduction to “Lost and Found,” a limited-edition 1989 portfolio of Ms. Maynard’s lithographs.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
Nulaxy's aluminum laptop stand does exactly that and easily disassembles when it's not needed.
From The Verge ● Nov. 22, 2021
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins In her bold and strange novel, Watkins disassembles the mythology of the American west, paying particular attention to its brutal expansionism and unquestioned promise of personal reinvention.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2020
The energy yield depends on the amount of uranium and the time it can be held together before it disassembles itself.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The German firm said it had disassembled the rocket to carry out investigations.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
She digitally "disassembled" the fossil one bone at a time and uncovered several anatomical features that differed from known Hesperosuchus specimens.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
Bicycle parts were of particular interest, hence the tented “bike shops,” with piles of disassembled parts, so common in L.A. encampments during the COVID-19 pandemic.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Zucker Art Books has the star of the entire fair in its disassembled book by Yuji Itaya, an otherwise unknown amateur lepidopterist who lived in Japan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
It was enough to give Artemis some room to maneuver with needle-nose pliers, and he soon had the locator’s panel disassembled before him.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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From all accounts, Israeli and American military strikes are meeting and even exceeding their goals of disassembling the regime’s infrastructure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
The team is disassembling at a rate fans are apprehensive about.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
There, Mark finds Gemma serenely disassembling the crib, and coaxes her to run with him.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
From San Diego to San Francisco, state and local workers began disassembling makeshift shelters and camps and displacing the homeless people living in them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2024
That’s why the idea of my mom disassembling her room like a traveling exhibit takes this echo of pain and turns it into something new and fresh.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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