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
"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
But sometimes they may not decline steadily at all; at the Tipping Point, schools can lose control of their students, and family life can disintegrate all at once.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
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
Instead, the authors used an experimental setup that sends a thin beam of liquid water into a vacuum, where it disintegrates into droplets.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 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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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 points out that Russia virtually disintegrated twice in the 20th century, once after the Bolshevik Revolution and again after the Cold War, only to claw its way back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
They have changed, there's no question about that, but they have not disintegrated.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
Panther Lake also represents a step forward for a company whose manufacturing footprint disintegrated over the last decade.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
Some polities may have disintegrated beneath the climatic assault, but Wari thrived.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
That changed in April 2023 when unknowing construction workers unceremoniously removed a disintegrating Pinky from its aerie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The theater vanished into the green wormhole, disintegrating into a snow globe with the theater inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
So does he have the numbers and is he willing to move – particularly if it is harder for him to point to Sir Keir's authority disintegrating because there is already a challenger?
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
A bit more digging, and what emerges from the hole are two silver candlesticks, wrapped in a disintegrating pillowcase.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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