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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
atomise .
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Examples
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You re right that a opeople is a dynamic and chnaging thing just as alanguage is but too any disparate elements too quickly does not add to the whole it atomises it into the cultural equivalent of a pigeon language an crude disconnected world where relations are distant.
Don`t Mind Us You Come On In Newmania 2007
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In one sense it atomises us, as we each bury our heads behind our own individual computer screens, reading or writing our transient e-phemera.
Archive 2007-03-01 Stephen Tall 2007
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In one sense it atomises us, as we each bury our heads behind our own individual computer screens, reading or writing our transient e-phemera.
Detritus: 18 Doughty Street, liberal blogging and David Cameron Stephen Tall 2007
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It atomises us, as we each bury our heads behind our individual computer screens, reading or writing our transient e-phemera.
Tuned in and turned on? Stephen Tall 2007
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It atomises us, as we each bury our heads behind our individual computer screens, reading or writing our transient e-phemera.
Archive 2007-05-01 Stephen Tall 2007
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It was attributed to aircraft deliberately spraying chemicals and infection agents on population centers, the "slime" is the result of non-optimal spraying, it clumps up rather than atomises as the sprayers would like it to.
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Instead, it uses a small lithium battery that atomises a liquid solution of nicotine.
ImpeachBush 2009
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The tiny mechanisms inside the 'lit' end atomises the air turning it into water vapour, giving you and the crowd that you'll no doubt draw next time you "spark up" in the pub, the impression you've taken a hefty drag.
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45.2 Measuring household usage of water, through water-meters, is discouraged because it atomises working class communities: no reference is made to the fact that, in actual practice, many households do not use much more than the free basic water provided, and that this campaign is encouraging saving of this resource!
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