Example Sentences
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As the world around them becomes more atomized, I find that they’re increasingly interested in connection.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026
In its most recent season, “60 Minutes” attracted an average of more than 9 million viewers External link per show, an anomaly in today’s atomized media environment.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
Alexis de Tocqueville warned that without voluntary associations—churches, civic groups, local organizations—individuals would become atomized and government would fill the vacuum with what he called “soft despotism.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
Under such a paradigm history must be sterilized of analysis and ultimately atomized into unrelated instances to make an eternal present, divorced from any transformative potential.
From Salon • Feb. 25, 2025
Gaia had been separated from her source of power, charmed to sleep and then atomized in the combined explosion of Leo’s fire and Octavian’s man-made comet.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
