atomize
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beat, bray, comminute, crush, disintegrate, grind, mill, mull, pound, powder, pulverize
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As if each parent, at the same moment, will see our offspring atomized, our species’ clouds lifting off the globe, the huge, childless atom. — Sharon Olds, The Atlantic, "8 Moons," 20 July 2019 The decline of the theme song is another example of how fragmented and atomized our culture has become. — Christopher J. Scalia, WSJ, "Memories of Music’s Prime Time," 7 Jan. 2019 Meanwhile, for actual white users, DNA testing services helpfully atomize whiteness into a series of percentage-point allegiances to various European countries. — New York Times, "The Racial Spectacle of DNA Test Result Videos," 6 May 2018 Industrial market logic views these people as atomized, perhaps with demographic characteristics by which they can be grouped and counted, but rarely as immersed in relationships with one another. — Nancy Baym, WIRED, "Book Excerpt: How Music Fans Built the Internet," 10 July 2018 Modified intake ports and new, higher-pressure fuel injectors enhance fuel delivery to the cylinders and better atomize the gas for higher efficiency and torque. — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, "2019 Mazda MX-5 gets 26-hp boost," 23 June 2018 Amateurs are flooding the internet; piracy has addled the once-dominant studios; production has atomized and scattered. — Amanda Hess, New York Times, "‘Who Gets to Be Sexy?’," 5 May 2018 The showerhead atomizes water into millions of droplets, each with more surface area than a regular drop of shower water. — Megan Friedman, Popular Mechanics, "This Energy-Efficient Showerhead Could Radically Reduce Your Bills," 11 Aug. 2015 The faucets atomize water, breaking it into a fine mist that still comes out fast enough to clean hands, allowing lavatory-goers to use some 90 percent less. — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, "Seven Airplane Innovations That Could Change How We Travel," 30 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'atomize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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