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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

“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

They disintegrate, scattering their molecules to the stratospheric winds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

A Sir Whitcomb, some decaying British nobleman, who chose to disintegrate under a sun more easeful than England’s, had introduced the white strain into the family in the early 1800’s.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

A squall of noise disintegrates into a martial riff that would send fans into a frenzy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

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

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 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

They have changed, there's no question about that, but they have not disintegrated.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026

Either they’d panicked and ran or they’d been disintegrated.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

The theater vanished into the green wormhole, disintegrating into a snow globe with the theater inside.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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

It is on its fourth cheese supplier, and still is trying to figure out how to keep the cheese from disintegrating while the shell waits for fillings like ground beef and yet-more cheese.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 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

All around, you saw these signals of neglect, as if the camp itself were slowly, deliberately disintegrating in order to comply with the administration’s deadline.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston