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disintegration

[dis-in-tuh-grey-shuhn] / dɪsˌɪn təˈgreɪ ʃən /


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Bush nor President Mikhail Gorbachev anticipated: the disintegration of the U.S.S.R.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Aung San's wartime comrade Ne Win, who had taken the helm of the armed forces after the leader's assassination in murky circumstances, swooped in in a putsch he justified as protection against Myanmar's disintegration.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

In the days since the government’s disintegration, Tadamon has illustrated the search for the missing, and for answers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024

Turchin identifies the driving force behind waves of globalization as "secular cycles" of integration and disintegration that individual societies go through, which can become synchronized by shared experiences such as pandemics.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024

As the Solvay drew near, interest in the deuton spread beyond Berkeley and the Cavendish, as did doubts about Lawrence’s disintegration theory and, consequently, his calculation for the neutron’s weight.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik