Example Sentences

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What it says about America: Genres were dissolving and the internet was flattening the musical landscape into a shared monoculture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

Ethnic Armenian authorities in Karabakh said on Thursday they were dissolving the breakaway statelet they had defended for three decades.

From Reuters • Sep. 28, 2023

“I worried that as my visibility as Barack Obama’s wife rose, the other parts of me were dissolving from view,” she writes in her new memoir, Becoming.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2018

The Yardbirds were dissolving and guitarist Jimmy Page recruited Reid for his new band.

From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2016

I had little time to think much about it, but quietly I worried that as my visibility as Barack Obama’s wife rose, the other parts of me were dissolving from view.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama