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"You know your health is disintegrating in front of you and there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop it, apart from being told to just take the contraceptive pill so you don't have periods."

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

After all, her parents are dead, her marriage is disintegrating, her child is institutionalized, her career is in free fall.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024

"Non-existent entities cannot enter a country which is disintegrating," he said on Twitter.

From Reuters • Sep. 29, 2022

Q: I have a shed with fiber cement siding that is disintegrating a few inches around the bottom.

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2022

The oneness of the early times is disintegrating.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 by Various