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disintegrate

[dis-in-tuh-grayt] / dɪsˈɪn təˌgreɪt /


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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

“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

Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.

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

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

Aluminum-based superconducting qubits can store information for a relatively long time before the data inevitably disintegrates.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 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

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

Donald Campbell died aged 45 when the hydroplane flipped into the air and disintegrated as he attempted a water speed record.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

By 1946, the young republic had almost disintegrated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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

Its human form disintegrated, and the crystal sands zipped through the air.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

That changed in April 2023 when unknowing construction workers unceremoniously removed a disintegrating Pinky from its eyrie.

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

Scientists are warning that glaciers in the Austrian Alps are not just shrinking, but are disintegrating, because of climate change.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 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

Rather than confirm Lawrence’s results, Caltech’s Lauritsen contradicted them, positing that the neutrons produced by his bombardments had come from disintegrating targets, not disintegrating deutons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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