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atomize

[at-uh-mahyz] / ˈæt əˌmaɪz /


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Binge-watching and the content boom helped atomize American culture.

From Washington Post Apr. 20, 2022

When you’re in the big city, you can atomize, right?

From The Verge May 31, 2018

This may change things or it could completely atomize the island once and for all.

From Slate Oct. 16, 2017

The effect parallels the subsequent crumbling of Vereen’s career and also Arceneaux’s attempt to atomize the damaging event.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2017

Q. Are you aware that in course of time the atomizer port will become worn too large and will discharge too large a volume of steam to properly atomize, and the remedy?

From The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads by Anonymous

Focusing on individual privacy protections isolates and atomizes us, however, while power rests in collective bodies.

From Slate Jan. 28, 2022

“These procedures call for fuel to be dumped over designated unpopulated areas, typically at higher altitudes so the fuel atomizes and disperses before it reaches the ground.”

From Seattle Times Jan. 14, 2020

The company spent the past five years engineering a showerhead that atomizes water, creating tiny droplets the company says cover 10 times more surface area than a normal shower to.

From Time Aug. 11, 2015

Lawrence; "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It" is not about yoga; "Zona" reflectively atomizes the film "Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky. 

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2015

The injector is on the K�rting principle, that is, it atomizes by fracture of the liquid oil arising from its own momentum under pressure.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

In its most recent season, “60 Minutes” attracted an average of more than 9 million viewers External link per show, an anomaly in today’s atomized media environment.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

Alexis de Tocqueville warned that without voluntary associations—churches, civic groups, local organizations—individuals would become atomized and government would fill the vacuum with what he called “soft despotism.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 19, 2026

Social media, which has divided us even more, has atomized community so much that I think the pendulum has swung just about as far as it possibly can away from kin-based organizations.

From Salon May 26, 2025

But as the audience continues to be atomized by the growing number of streaming options, sports are more valuable than ever for advertisers who want to reach a mass audience.

From Los Angeles Times May 16, 2025

Gaia had been separated from her source of power, charmed to sleep and then atomized in the combined explosion of Leo’s fire and Octavian’s man-made comet.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

The New York Times is “disbanding” its sports department, atomizing the staff and pushing readers to pay extra for sports coverage by The Athletic, a money-losing news startup it bought last year for $550 million.

From Seattle Times Jul. 12, 2023

As Rushkoff puts it: "those of us without the funding to disown our humanity. . . don't have to use technology in such antisocial, atomizing ways."

From Salon Jun. 30, 2020

Others point to the atomizing effects of the internet on inter-human relations.

From New York Times Jul. 4, 2018

Luxury as we know it—as a consumer market, as a concept—is atomizing.

From Slate Apr. 15, 2014

George M. Smyth, Brooklyn, N. Y.—This invention consists in the combination of an air compressor, an air reservoir, and a receptacle for the liquid, and an arrangement of pipes and nozzles for atomizing the liquid.

From Scientific American, Vol. XXXVII.?No. 2. [New Series.], July 14, 1877 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures by Various




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