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Recent Examples of disintegration
Tim Darcy has always been the man of a thousand voices — a wildly imaginative singer playing different roles, capturing the disintegration of the self from different angles.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2026
The loss of the Soviet empire in 1989 and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 created enormous nostalgia for 1945, and Putin has been promoting that nostalgia for more than two decades.
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Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2026
Microplastics are minuscule particles— less than five millimeters in size—that originate from the disintegration of plastic products.
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Simmone Shah,
Time,
7 May 2026
But even in its most opposing moments, from its depths of disintegration to its peaks of pattern-building, Spirals/Viral has a cryptic unity.
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Reed Jackson,
SPIN,
24 Apr. 2026
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2026
The loss of the Soviet empire in 1989 and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 created enormous nostalgia for 1945, and Putin has been promoting that nostalgia for more than two decades.
—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2026
Microplastics are minuscule particles— less than five millimeters in size—that originate from the disintegration of plastic products.
—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
7 May 2026
But even in its most opposing moments, from its depths of disintegration to its peaks of pattern-building, Spirals/Viral has a cryptic unity.
—
Reed Jackson,
SPIN,
24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disintegration
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Authorities also found numerous dead animals in advanced stages of decomposition, including hundreds of chickens that investigators said had been discarded in bags and fed to the dogs, according to The Straits Times and The Standard.
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Investigators also found additional remains in advanced stages of decomposition, the sheriff’s office said.
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The aisles were so choked that blooms and branches brushed against us, the air heady with the scent of lilies, roses, eucalyptus, and sweet decay.
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The physical properties of TRISO fuel and gas cooling allow the core to dissipate residual decay heat naturally.
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Following the abrupt dissolution of Disney’s $1 billion investment in OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video app, Shin stressed that there are no plans to use A24’s existing IP to create GenAI tools.
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Coincidentally or not, that pained study of marital dissolution, co-starring Jolie’s then-husband Brad Pitt, intersected with the couple’s real-life breakup — not to mention Jolie’s grief over the death of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand.
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Janet, meanwhile, is having the kind of emotional breakdown that necessitates producer intervention.
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To help identify which aspects to comment on, Ginexi provides a helpful breakdown of the different sections of the OMB’s proposal.
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“Disintegration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disintegration. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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