disintegrate
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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
"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
Late in the day on the north face of the Thumb, I felt the glue disintegrate with a swing of an ice ax.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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
In a warming atmosphere, the number of glaciers can decrease because they vanish — but it can also increase because a larger glacier disintegrates into several smaller ice patches, Zemp said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
When a wind spirit disintegrates, it creates a vacuum.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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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
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
Panther Lake also represents a step forward for a company whose manufacturing footprint disintegrated over the last decade.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
Among other drawbacks, she notes, “films have disintegrated because preservationists can’t digitize them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
Another tried to snake around the edge of the table, but Ayanna’s staff, flaring with golden light, struck out and jabbed it in the collar until it disintegrated into a tinkle of blackened fragments.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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At some point disintegrating cohesion produces costs—social, economic and political—that undermine the benefits of the inequality and erode support for the system itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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
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
The former, which Miller once considered calling “The Inside of His Head,” is fluidly constructed, playing fast and loose with time as it tracks the disintegrating mental life of down-and-out salesman Willy Loman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
That’s why Luke had been able to host the spirit of Kronos without his body disintegrating.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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