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disintegration

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


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"The greatest threat to the transatlantic community is not its external enemies, but the ongoing disintegration of our alliance," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned on Saturday.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

There are more deaths in store in Ms. Zigman’s alluring tale of psychological disintegration.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Allen made an entire album about the disintegration of her marriage to David Barbour.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 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

The old guard’s natural radiation sources, the thimblefuls of radium and clumps of radium-beryllium they used to make the discoveries that transformed physics—nuclear disintegration, the neutron, and artificial radioactivity—had had their day.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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