disintegrate
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The Swift space telescope, which studies the most powerful explosions in the universe, will now likely plunge back to earth and disintegrate along the way later this year.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
When a brooding Pitt admits he’s had trouble with “family stuff,” the writer lets the sentiment disintegrate.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Only last month U.S. authorities said that it was illegal for countries to charge tolls on international waterways, so this threat may disintegrate when it hits reality,” said Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
They disintegrate, scattering their molecules to the stratospheric winds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Back in the darkest corner of my heart it lay, so well pressed that its fragile edges might chip, break off, even disintegrate if I tried to touch it.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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However, the US Geological Survey then clarified that the disaster was caused by a "glacial collapse", which is when a glacier or part of a glacier disintegrates.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
But if data disintegrates, he said, he would vote in favor of a cut.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
He adds that if we sacrifice that commitment for A.I., “you’d get to a point pretty fast where it just disintegrates and becomes the ugliest definition of the word product.”
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2024
There are still many unanswered questions, such as where and how the capsid disintegrates to release its contents.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2024
They don’t drop me—it’s more like the group that’s supporting me disintegrates and I get dumped on the floor as everyone rushes to fix the fallen links.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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Every robot that faceplanted, lost a limb, or disintegrated in a spray of sparks was borne away on a stretcher by human attendants with deadpan solicitude.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
Donald Campbell died aged 45 when the hydroplane flipped into the air and disintegrated as he attempted a water speed record.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
By 1946, the young republic had almost disintegrated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Given how fragile it was, it may simply have disintegrated on the shelf and been overlooked or thrown away.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The gray cloud of it disintegrated and drifted away in small streams, leaving Pet’s body full and solid in the studio, all gold and red-streaked white.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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That changed in April 2023 when unknowing construction workers unceremoniously removed a disintegrating Pinky from its eyrie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The former, which Miller once considered calling “The Inside of His Head,” is fluidly constructed, playing fast and loose with time as it tracks the disintegrating mental life of down-and-out salesman Willy Loman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
"You know your health is disintegrating in front of you and there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop it, apart from being told to just take the contraceptive pill so you don't have periods."
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
SpaceX confirmed with the agency that Starship was disintegrating 15 minutes after that, according to the documents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
That’s why Luke had been able to host the spirit of Kronos without his body disintegrating.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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