disintegration

Example Sentences

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Bush nor President Mikhail Gorbachev anticipated: the disintegration of the U.S.S.R.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

"The risk is a disintegration, even a collapse, of the reputation and historical role of the American Church," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

It is also no surprise an Australian captain who reveled in "mental disintegration" thought proceedings were set by a similar incident 27 years earlier.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025

Both emphasized the need to address root causes of violence, including poverty and social disintegration.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2025

Theory dictated that if the supposed disintegration were occurring within the nucleus’s electric field, the production of protons and neutrons would diminish as the targets got heavier.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik