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Recent Examples of disintegration
Then came the disintegration of Brian Jones, once one of her best friends, now debilitated with drugs and insecurities.
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Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
This preoccupation misses the elephant in the room: the disintegration or collapse of the Black family, the prime engine for inculcating behavioral norms indispensable to success.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2025
Numerous photos and videos posted on social media showed smoking debris trails fanning out from a fireball in the late afternoon sky in a scene reminiscent of the shuttle Columbia's breakup in 2003 and the Russian Mir space station's intentional re-entry and disintegration in 2001.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025
Following World War I and the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, both Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, which later became Yugoslavia, laid claim to the city of Fiume, now known as Rijeka in Croatia.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2025
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Bill Wyman, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025
This preoccupation misses the elephant in the room: the disintegration or collapse of the Black family, the prime engine for inculcating behavioral norms indispensable to success.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2025
Numerous photos and videos posted on social media showed smoking debris trails fanning out from a fireball in the late afternoon sky in a scene reminiscent of the shuttle Columbia's breakup in 2003 and the Russian Mir space station's intentional re-entry and disintegration in 2001.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025
Following World War I and the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, both Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, which later became Yugoslavia, laid claim to the city of Fiume, now known as Rijeka in Croatia.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disintegration
Noun
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Such insects accelerate microbial decay by grinding wood down to smaller bits, while also digesting some themselves.—
Katarina Zimmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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Cats and dogs can detect odor and decay from long distances.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Ukrainians are a good-humored, industrious and resourceful people who finally achieved independence in 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, precipitated by the aggressive stance against communism by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run begins with the band’s founding in 1971—with Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, and Denny Seiwell—and is organized around their nine albums, including the 1973 staple Band on the Run, on through to their dissolution in 1981.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
26 Feb. 2025
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Here’s the full breakdown: Neon – 5 A24 – 3 Netflix – 3 Universal – 2 Warner Bros. – 2 Disney’s Searchlight Pictures – 1 Universal’s Focus – 1 Mubi – 1 Sideshow/Janus – 1 See all the Oscar winners here and the red carpet looks here for the 97th Academy Awards.—
Aaron Couch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Mar. 2025
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Here is a full breakdown of the Cognizant Classic payout.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Disintegration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disintegration. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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