Definition of "atomized" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of atomize. (verb)

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• "The Mapuches, Cabieses said, were "atomized" just like the rest of society and the most radical Indians had been beaten back and repressed by the police."
• "Moreover, with big Colombian cartels broken up and many kingpins in U.S. jails, local participation in the trade has somewhat "atomized," said Salomon Kalmanovitz, an economist and former member of the Colombian Central Bank's board of directors."
• "Indeed, the U.S. unemployment rate fails to capture what Kauffman Foundation's Kedrosky calls "atomized" forms of employment."