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come apart

















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snap
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Postage stamps used to come apart with a string of muted pops, their perforations separating serially like tiny zippers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Using advanced imaging techniques and earthquake data, scientists have now seen this subduction zone starting to come apart.

From Science Daily Apr. 29, 2026

And you can already see the seams of the endless, exhausting effort to push back starting to come apart.

From Slate Nov. 5, 2024

He described how in some fragments, the carbon fibre layers had come apart - a known process called delamination.

From BBC Sep. 25, 2024

Then I pulled until I thought my arms would come apart and my head would explode.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel




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