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Recent Examples of disintegrate Interestingly, the coat will break down and disintegrate over time. Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 5 June 2025 And my leg began to disintegrate in some way around the kneecap area. Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 24 May 2025 Tropical Storm Barry disintegrated after striking Mexico early Monday morning while the National Hurricane Center continued to forecast the season’s next tropical depression or storm could form off the coast of Florida later this week. Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 June 2025 Snorkelers and divers in Palm Beach County were recently stunned by a disturbing sight: starfish, also known as sea stars, with missing limbs, open wounds and bodies disintegrating on the ocean floor. Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 30 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for disintegrate
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disintegrate
Verb
  • The decomposing roots serve as the host for the mushrooms to grow.
    Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • The metamorphic rock from which Atlanta’s soil is derived also contributes to its alkalinity as does the constantly decomposing organic matter, consisting mostly of leaves, on the soil surface.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • This precise semiautomatic machine can grind your beans, push out balanced shots, and froth your milk.
    Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 11 July 2025
  • The fact that everybody was there and everyone was grinding, there was that little extra motivation to really get this thing going.
    Vic Tafur, New York Times, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • Underneath the fun exterior, Red Bull was serious about its ambitions of disrupting F1’s front-runners and assembling a team that was capable of winning a championship.
    Luke Smith, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • The industry’s year of strikes in 2023 also disrupted the flow of Hollywood movie releases to the local multiplex.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • However, when viruses were exposed to sunlight, many of them did not survive as long, decaying in under 24 hours.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The result was not only environmental catastrophe but license for unchecked consumption of cheap plastic goods that can take a few minutes to use but hundreds of years to decay.
    Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The Yankees dropped their sixth consecutive game Saturday, suffering a crushing 12-6 loss to the New York Mets.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2025
  • If the Heat move off Bam Adebayo, the defense will absorb a crushing blow, but that will come at a time when NBA offense has trumped NBA defense.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2025
Verb
  • But an injury put an end to that impressive string of games, as Jovic broke his right hand on Feb. 23 and missed the final 27 games of last regular season.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 14 July 2025
  • Will Porter has spent the past few years breaking back into tennis by taking lessons and playing matches with friends.
    Will Porter, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • Immigration enforcement operations on farms have left crops rotting and farm operations disrupted in major agricultural states including California, Texas, and Pennsylvania.
    Billal Rahman Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • Avoid sodding shady spots during the rainy season to prevent decline due to rot problems.
    Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2025
Verb
  • On Friday, torrential rain pounded the region, causing the Guadalupe River in Kerr County to rise 26 feet in just 45 minutes -- the second-highest on record, officials said .
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 July 2025
  • For the first time since the storms began pounding Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said there were 41 people confirmed to be unaccounted for across the state and more could be missing.
    Brit Morse, Fortune, 7 July 2025

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“Disintegrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disintegrate. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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