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disunify

American  
[dis-yoo-nuh-fahy] / dɪsˈju nəˌfaɪ /

verb (used with object)

disunified, disunifying
  1. to destroy the unity of.


Etymology

Origin of disunify

First recorded in 1890–95; dis- 1 + unify


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“I think slowly by slowly we just started to kind of get disunified, which we can’t let happen,” Oladejo said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

The defense of those who organized Unite the Right, now a disunified amalgam of essentially seven different factions, brought only two non-party witnesses and had no expert testimony to support their claims.

From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2021

Many people think that NASA's programs of the late 1950s and 1960s were extremely popular, and it is often said that the Apollo program unified an otherwise disunified nation.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 1, 2021

The problem for students is that it is all but impossible to know ahead of time which part of the disunified university is which.

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2015

With the controlled splitting of the atom, humanity, already profoundly perplexed and disunified, was brought inescapably into a new age in which all thoughts and things were split—and far from controlled.

From Time Magazine Archive

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