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  • verb Present participle of disunify.

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Examples

  • The answer is yes, and the credit goes to the Framers, especially in Virginia and Massachusetts, who were able to restrain the disunifying forces of revolution they themselves had unleashed.

    Five Books of the American Revolution 2009

  • Both the Kantian and communitarian objections target the disunifying implications of a metaphysical approach like reductionism, insisting instead that we are indeed unified as either practical agents or selves in moral space for purely normative reasons.

    Personal Identity and Ethics Shoemaker, David 2008

  • The things that are happening in these small towns, like Hazleton, are disunifying.

    CNN Transcript May 6, 2007 2007

  • The things that are happening in these small towns, like Hazleton, are disunifying.

    CNN Transcript May 2, 2007 2007

  • The things that are happening in these small towns like Hazleton are disunifying.

    CNN Transcript May 28, 2007 2007

  • Race is the single most disunifying theme of the collective American experience, a point that has been exploited to great effect by so-called conservative politicians for nearly the entirety of my life.

    Bill Clinton Lunches With Whites. Also, Firedoglake sucks. 2006

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