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dematerializing

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  • verb Present participle of dematerialize.

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Examples

  • Services will take the place of resource extraction industries over time, 'dematerializing' the economy by

    Energy Bulletin - 2010

  • Just then the sound of the TARDIS dematerializing filled the room.

    The Boundaries of Temptation (4/5) amberfocus 2009

  • Tyler Hunt took a few deep breaths in the instants between his stun grenade dematerializing and the transporter beam sweeping him across the void after it.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • Performance art in particular, with its anti-narrative, taboo-breaking, sometimes dangerous, and often politically activist content and contextualization, brand 1970s performances as coming as close to establishing a dematerializing, alternative to the commodity-based artworld as any modern art movement has achieved.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Performance art in particular, with its anti-narrative, taboo-breaking, sometimes dangerous, and often politically activist content and contextualization, brand 1970s performances as coming as close to establishing a dematerializing, alternative to the commodity-based artworld as any modern art movement has achieved.

    G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

  • Tyler Hunt took a few deep breaths in the instants between his stun grenade dematerializing and the transporter beam sweeping him across the void after it.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • Even where famously dematerializing and globalizing assets, like fiber optic telecom lines, are added -- assets that supposedly make physical location irrelevant -- they are still largely being added where existing agglomerations of capital are.

    Ian Fletcher: The Myth of the Global Economy 2010

  • Our most brilliant minds can and should be let loose on cutting-edge industrial design that focuses not on improving just speed and style, but on dematerializing—using fewer resources.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • Our most brilliant minds can and should be let loose on cutting-edge industrial design that focuses not on improving just speed and style, but on dematerializing—using fewer resources.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • Even where famously dematerializing and globalizing assets, like fiber optic telecom lines, are added -- assets that supposedly make physical location irrelevant -- they are still largely being added where existing agglomerations of capital are.

    Ian Fletcher: The Myth of the Global Economy 2010

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