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disintegrate

[dis-in-tuh-greyt] / dɪsˈɪn təˌgreɪt /


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"You can't move a mobile home that's been sitting for 25 years. It will disintegrate," says Mountain Meadows resident Ben Moore, 35, who first moved to the park with his father in high school.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

“Only last month U.S. authorities said that it was illegal for countries to charge tolls on international waterways, so this threat may disintegrate when it hits reality,” said Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

Now, with those entry-level jobs disappearing, there’s danger that “the pathways that provide mobility disintegrate and you lose the American promise of opportunity,” Muro said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 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

For half a mile, it looked as if they might, in fact, disintegrate as a crew, as they had done so often lately.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

There are still many unanswered questions, such as where and how the capsid disintegrates to release its contents.

From Science Daily Jan. 25, 2024

As a crystal reaches a cell wall, it disintegrates into hundreds of individual virus particles, and the broodlings push through the cell wall like hair and float away in the bloodstream of the host.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

He poked at the steps on a back stairway and the water-damaged tiles disintegrated like soggy saltines.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

The numbers are far from the peaks reached in 2011, when tens of thousands arrived in just a few months as maritime border controls disintegrated during the Arab Spring revolts.

From Barron's Jul. 4, 2026

They have changed, there's no question about that, but they have not disintegrated.

From BBC Feb. 9, 2026

“I do hope that Miss Trixie does appear,” he said after he had finished the first sandwich and emitted a series of belches which sounded as if they had disintegrated his digestive tract.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

The former, which Miller once considered calling “The Inside of His Head,” is fluidly constructed, playing fast and loose with time as it tracks the disintegrating mental life of down-and-out salesman Willy Loman.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2026

Scientists are warning that glaciers in the Austrian Alps are not just shrinking, but are disintegrating, because of climate change.

From BBC Mar. 13, 2026

Gaye drew inspiration from his disintegrating marriage to Gordy’s sister.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2025

Only this time it’s my heart and not my body that’s disintegrating.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins




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