atomize
verb (used with object)
to reduce to atoms.
has atomized
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present perfectof atomize (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Social media, which has divided us even more, has atomized community so much that I think the pendulum has swung just about as far as it possibly can away from kin-based organizations.
From Salon ● May 26, 2025
Amateurs are flooding the internet; piracy has addled the once-dominant studios; production has atomized and scattered.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2018
The computer has atomized, as Mr. Rose likes to say, and its functions can be distributed about our households like an army of miniature genies.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2014
