disintegration
noun
Justin GillisThe New York TimesWilliam KristolDaniel D. Polsby
Examples of disintegration in a Sentence
Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2024
The knowledge of milpa farming empowered many rural farmers to navigate climate changes during the notorious Maya Collapse – two centuries of political disintegration and urban depopulation between A.D. 800 to 1000.
—Chelsea Fisher, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2024
In this indispensable compendium, 29 leading experts, including many young Cuban scholars, delve deeply into this precipitous disintegration.
—Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
This can accelerate the disintegration of delicate, organic materials preserved on wrecks, such as ropes, sails and textiles.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
While colonialism was a factor, other global developments—the spread of ethnic nationalism, the disintegration of Eurasian empires coupled with the expansion of the British and French empires, and the widespread persecution of ethnic and religious minorities—were also of great importance.
—TIME, 1 Feb. 2024
The question today is whether the gyre of slaughter can be broken, a third intifada averted and something new emerge from the West Bank’s disintegration and Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
What is the conflict between Serbia and Kosovo? Serbia and Kosovo were once part of undivided Yugoslavia, and its disintegration along ethnic lines was marred by bloodshed.
—Niha Masih, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
Long before October 7, the terror group had come under domestic pressure because of its role in the virtual disintegration of Lebanon.
—Susanna Hoffman, National Review, 9 Jan. 2024
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1794, in the meaning defined above
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