atomization

Example Sentences

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Perhaps that atomization is why large communal events are still so popular.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

Countries like Germany and Russia suffered a crisis of industrial modernization, with wrenching change, uneven development and the atomization of the individual in a newly created mass society.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025

“Part of the atomization of society is we’re not coordinated in our response to crime,” Mr. Kilpatrick said.

From Washington Times • Jul. 25, 2023

Wallace has an eye for Americana: the kitsch, the disorder, the atomization.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2023

Knowing that the appearance of electricity depends on a process of atomization of some sort, we shall expect that where electricity becomes freely observable, it will yield phenomena of an atomistic kind.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst