micronizing

present participle of micronize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for micronizing
Verb
  • Window closing to find survivors These are the kinds of scenes playing out across La Guaira state, with people milling around in the streets after being left homeless, uncertain of what to do next.
    Fernando Narro Roman, NPR, 28 June 2026
  • In addition to the extra security guards milling about, many of the areas that were formerly open to the public were closed off by fences and guarded exits.
    Seamus Bozeman Follow, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • The garbanzos are sometimes roasted before pulverizing, lending the yellow powder a richer, nuttier taste.
    Randi Gollin, Martha Stewart, 25 June 2026
  • But the biggest beef to be had is in Sarnoski’s insistence to bludgeon us with pulverizing violence, which grows tiresome and repetitive in the carnage-spewing initial 30 minutes.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • Yet Marketplace Pulse research shows only 23% of sellers are growing revenue and improving margins at the same time; the rest are either grinding or distressed.
    Dani Nadel, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The grinding process will leave a large mound of chips mixed with soil that will need to be removed and replaced with topsoil.
    Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026
Verb
  • Traditional methods such as powdering, cyanoacrylate fuming, or ninhydrin rely on sweat and sebaceous residues (a mixture of skin oil and dead skin) left behind on a surface.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Posada illustrated her in ostentatious attire to satirize the way the garbanceras attempted to pass as upper-class by powdering their faces and wearing fashionable French attire.
    Mathew Sandoval, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2023
Verb
  • To accomplish this, Licklider proposed atomizing books into discrete blocks of information — exactly as Otlet had suggested more than half a century before, but now assisted by digital tools rather than index cards.
    Big Think, Big Think, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The mentality is just one example of how young people in China are reacting and adapting to a fast-changing and often atomizing urban society.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 21 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Many of our schools do a decent job of crushing students’ desire for mental effort.
    David Brooks, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • And in the end, the Sox scored their most runs in a game since 1970, crushing the Kansas City Royals 22-1 in front of 31,130 at Rate Field.
    LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
Verb
  • That changed in April 2023 when unknowing construction workers unceremoniously removed a disintegrating Pinky from its eyrie.
    Ryan Steven Green, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • The experiments have shown how a self-repair mechanism enables the spindle to stabilize itself under force and avoid disintegrating.
    Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • Be mesmerized by the dazzling lasers and pulse-pounding tunes from the movie in this unforgettable experience.
    Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 29 June 2026
  • An apartment surveillance video captured a man pounding on the window, before Davis gave him a key.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
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“Micronizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/micronizing. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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