disintegrate

The scouts said the object climbed quickly before appearing to disintegrate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

"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

Tall figures, made in the 1960s, seem to disintegrate as we concentrate on the nuances of De Kooning’s touch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

When a brooding Pitt admits he’s had trouble with “family stuff,” the writer lets the sentiment disintegrate.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

At current rates of change, within the next decade the few remaining bands of hunter-gatherers will abandon their ways, disintegrate, or die out, thereby ending our millions of years of commitment to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

"And, again just like a truck, the protein is used again or recycled until ultimately it falls apart or disintegrates."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2023

When you kill a monster in Final Fantasy, it makes a sound like a groan and disintegrates into sand.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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

Things have disintegrated since, hastened by the predictable filleting of goods and services to extrude every last cent of value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 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

Some polities may have disintegrated beneath the climatic assault, but Wari thrived.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

A new paper looking at the chemical reactions between water and disintegrating plastic offers a potential hypothesis for how microplastics might make us sick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

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 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

Then twelve billion gallons of water molecules crowd for that initial escape vent, and they tear and chew at the structure until house-size chunks of it tumble down its disintegrating face.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith