disintegrate
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"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
When a brooding Pitt admits he’s had trouble with “family stuff,” the writer lets the sentiment disintegrate.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 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
But they had to keep their clothes dry, because if they got wet, they would disintegrate.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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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
In humans, the dental lamina disintegrates after we grow our adult teeth, but many vertebrates retain the ability to replace their teeth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025
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
He moves to place it on her shoulders but the lace disintegrates between his fingers, falling into dust.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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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
The US Geological Survey says the floods in the Nepal-Tibet border were triggered by a "glacial collapse" - meaning a glacier or part of a glacier had disintegrated.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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
Then in a matter of weeks in 2011, Sokol’s prospects disintegrated after a controversy related to his personal stock trades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
If Jason hadn’t been strapped to the mast with one of Leo’s twenty-point safety harnesses, he would have disintegrated.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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At some point disintegrating cohesion produces costs—social, economic and political—that undermine the benefits of the inequality and erode support for the system itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The theater vanished into the green wormhole, disintegrating into a snow globe with the theater inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Columbia was unable to withstand the fiery re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, disintegrating as the world watched on in horror.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
Gaye drew inspiration from his disintegrating marriage to Gordy’s sister.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
It is an old time-table now, disintegrating at its folds and headed "This schedule in effect July 5th, 1922."
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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