disassembling

present participle of disassemble

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Recent Examples of disassembling Workers began disassembling the street where the yellow letters were painted a block from the White House after the killing of a Black man by Minnesota police sparked nationwide protests nearly five years ago. Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2025 The activities include randomly selecting units, disassembling them at the Pantex Plant, and testing components at Sandia’s Weapons Evaluation Testing Laboratory. Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 Feb. 2025 While Apple's low marks are partially due the difficulty involved in disassembling MacBooks, Lenovo appears to be withholding information from shoppers deemed critical to right-to-repair legislation and accessibility. Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2025 Biden's blue rug has been replaced with a more neutral one, which required disassembling some parts of the Resolute Desk. Mike Allen, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025 Africa’s curriculum is, in itself, a masterclass in disassembling the visual politics of beauty as a colonial construct. Akilah Sailers, Essence, 19 Dec. 2024 The startup plans to use the funding to grow the production of its robotic disassembling factories, said Molg co-founder and CEO Rob Lawson-Shanks. Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024 The multifunctional carpet cleaner has a water tank that holds more than enough water, even when tackling bigger messes, and disassembling the attachments is easy thanks to the gadget's convenient quick-release button. Toni Sutton, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disassembling
Verb
  • By dismantling these programs, health disparities will continue to soar, not just for racial minorities but for essentially all Americans.
    Omer Awan, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Lebanon's government was responsible for dismantling military infrastructure in southern Lebanon and confiscating unauthorized arms.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • There are already laws in Florida governing weather modification, which can include cloud seeding—the enhancement of precipitation by dispersing substances into clouds that encourage the formation of rain or snow.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
  • These pollutants can come from a variety of sources, including vehicle emissions, industrial activity, wildfires, and weather patterns that prevent pollution from dispersing.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • The choir leaned over him offering words of motivation, and rain doused the flames as Kirk Franklin marched up to a stage beating back smoke with an orange glow, like sunlight dissolving cloud cover.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Even some downstate Republicans oppose the movement, arguing that dissolving townships will lead to tax hikes.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • While remote work isn’t disappearing, the era of full-time remote freedom may be ending for many workers.
    Jason Wingard, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Can’t Look Away, in part, focuses on the Social Media Victims Law Center and its lawsuit against Snapchat on behalf of families whose children met tragic ends after consuming counterfeit prescription drugs acquired through the disappearing messaging app run by parent Snap.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In their previous work, the team studied the scattering mechanism that generates noise when strong classical communications and single photons travel in fiber optic cable.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Secondly, the petals excel at scattering sound waves, making the particles easier to image via ultrasound (they can also be coated with light-absorbing molecules, boosting their visibility via optoacoustic imaging).
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2024

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“Disassembling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disassembling. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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