disintegrate
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The Swift space telescope, which studies the most powerful explosions in the universe, will now likely plunge back to earth and disintegrate along the way later this year.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 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
From between Rosemont’s ears, Richards saw Seabiscuit’s form disintegrate.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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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
Inside, it disintegrates and gives rise to a wormlike creature, which then develops into the new Phoenix, ready for the next five hundred years.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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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
It was a piece of old Nashville that’s slowly disintegrated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
That was before the alliance disintegrated, the two erstwhile allies turned on each other and the jihadists drove the Tuareg separatists out.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 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
Soggy chunks of bun and meat were visible between clenched fingers—she had squeezed the sandwich so ferociously that it had disintegrated.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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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
SpaceX confirmed with the agency that Starship was disintegrating 15 minutes after that, according to the documents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
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
She feels transparent, as if the hard lines of her hulking form were disintegrating.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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