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“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

Before it began to disintegrate, K1 was likely slightly larger than a typical comet, measuring about 5 miles across.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026

“It is almost seventy years old and preserved in spirits of wine. I am afraid it will disintegrate if we remove it.”

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

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

When a low-voltage electrical stimulus is applied through the patch, the gold coating disintegrates, exposing the drug-loaded microneedles to the skin and initiating the controlled release of the drugs.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024

“You can see obviously it fails in flight, it spins out and disintegrates, and the impacts on the ground follow that,” said Crump, CEO of Skyline, a London-based strategic advisory firm.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

The paper disintegrates into mush between her teeth.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

At Spurs the club's identity, fragile as it was, disintegrated around him.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

But then on Feb. 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry into the atmosphere, killing the crew of seven.

From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025

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

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

Structures made out of bed sheets and clothing—assembled by displaced Palestinians who haven’t received a proper tent—are disintegrating in the heavy rains and winds, leaving many out in the cold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025

What you want is a cookie that will absorb without disintegrating — a texture that yields but doesn’t vanish.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2025

I loved my band — I thought it was the culmination of everything I’d been working for — and to watch it sort of disintegrating, I just felt powerless.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2025

He stood up and straightened his disintegrating coat and then reached for me, smoothing my hair with his big hands and adjusting my bow.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly