dismantlement

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Noun
  • Somewhere between good intentions and poor execution, things unraveled.
    Ashar Samdani, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • The latter facilitate the execution of a design vision or ensure repetitive tasks where resources are rare.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • To be fair, the effacement of character is itself one of Leitch’s dramatic points.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
  • There are times in The Years when the betrayal and effacement of May compels Ernaux to say something similar.
    Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • His 2020 documentary Gunda, executive produced by Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, examined the life of a pig raising a farrow of piglets who are then seized and sent to slaughter.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 June 2025
  • At the moment, most American beef cannot be exported to Britain, in part because of the widespread practice of hormone treatment but also because of other regulations, including those covering the method of slaughter.
    Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Supporters cast Putin, who Russian pollsters say has approval ratings of above 85%, as a savior who pushed back against an arrogant West and put an end to the chaos which accompanied the 1991 disintegration of the Soviet Union.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 4 May 2025
  • But to me, there’s forces of disintegration and integration at all times.
    Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These included a shopping mall siege in 2013 that killed over 60, a bus hijacking in 2014 that killed 28, and a 2015 college massacre where 148 people—predominantly Christian students—were killed.
    Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
  • Israel on Thursday recovered the bodies of two hostages who were abducted in the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre that ignited the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
    Bradford Betz , Yael Rotem-Kuriel, FOXNews.com, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Taken into custody following an assassination attempt on the Gotham mayor (Nestor Carbonell) during the funeral of Police Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb (Colin McFarlane), District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) threatens to shoot Schiff until Batman (Christian Bale) intervenes.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Nick Offerman's General Sydney also dies, uh, rather abruptly after saving President Sloane (Angela Bassett) from a situation-room assassination attempt.
    EW.com, EW.com, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • There were also signs of lung collapse and fluid buildup (edema).
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 28 May 2025
  • Meanwhile, rural hospitals — already on the brink of collapse — will close their doors, leaving entire communities without access to emergency care.
    Brian Castrucci, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • The younger Zoll was the prime suspect in his father’s killing, and authorities launched a multiweek search for him late last year.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 27 May 2025
  • The fatal attack was part of a wave of racially motivated killings during that era in the United States, especially in the south.
    Sam Gillette, People.com, 27 May 2025
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“Dismantlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismantlement. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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