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  • noun Plural form of atomizer.

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Examples

  • In "Manhattan Mouse Museum" 2011, Mr. Oldenburg tenderly dusts his menagerie of knickknacks, including miniature palm trees and perfume atomizers, carefully categorized by shelf in his bookcase.

    Tacita Dean Reflects on Time Helen Young Chang 2011

  • Where were the bunsen burners, the atomizers, the clouds of nitrogen, the strange foams, and the dishes that looked straight out of a Bosch painting?

    Roseann M. Lake: elBulli in Beijing 2010

  • Cologne salesmen walked to and fro with huge atomizers, puffing scent on men who staggered under burdens of bricks, and ladder peddlers carried their wares on their head, nearly knocking down tall men every time they looked both ways to cross the road.

    Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

  • Cologne salesmen walked to and fro with huge atomizers, puffing scent on men who staggered under burdens of bricks, and ladder peddlers carried their wares on their head, nearly knocking down tall men every time they looked both ways to cross the road.

    Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

  • These stages took place within a construction of component parts—atomizers, chambers, charged plates, batteries, ion source, observing microscope—which were themselves means to purposes.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • Cologne salesmen walked to and fro with huge atomizers, puffing scent on men who staggered under burdens of bricks, and ladder peddlers carried their wares on their head, nearly knocking down tall men every time they looked both ways to cross the road.

    Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

  • Cologne salesmen walked to and fro with huge atomizers, puffing scent on men who staggered under burdens of bricks, and ladder peddlers carried their wares on their head, nearly knocking down tall men every time they looked both ways to cross the road.

    Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware M. T. Andreson 2009

  • Shunned, scorned, mocked, doled into martinis in the tiniest amounts possible (with implements like eyedroppers and atomizers) for over a half-century, vermouth is one of the most misunderstood liquid refreshments.

    Tony Sachs: Vermouth: Not the Devil's Juice 2008

  • The latter were packed like Therese in elongated plastic purse atomizers and were probably mistaken for pens on the X-Rays.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Ayala Sender 2006

  • From the collection of atomizers on the dresser, I chose one and squeezed the bulb, but no perfume came out.

    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

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