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- verb Present participle of
dematerialize .
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Examples
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Services will take the place of resource extraction industries over time, 'dematerializing' the economy by
Energy Bulletin - 2010
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Just then the sound of the TARDIS dematerializing filled the room.
The Boundaries of Temptation (4/5) amberfocus 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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