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Recent Examples of dismantlement
Continue reading … POLITICS ATOMIC STANDOFF — Iran signals nuclear progress in Geneva as Trump calls for full dismantlement.
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FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026
The plant, located in the Town of Carlton, closed in 2013 and began major dismantlement in 2022.
—Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Edison notifies the public 48 hours before batch releases, which will continue through the plant’s dismantlement (slated to wrap up in 2028-ish).
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 7 Jan. 2026
Another 13 canisters are filled with material classified as greater than Class C waste, collected during the dismantlement efforts at SONGS.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2025
Nevertheless, cybercrime should be reported to the FBI for intelligence gathering and to support efforts to disrupt ongoing operations, which can result in website takedowns, disruptions and dismantlement.
—Austin Berglas, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Her company used selective demolition and structural dismantlement on the exterior, which focused on preserving any salvageable building materials.
—Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2025
Latest gesture of conciliation The dismantlement of the loudspeakers, which is due to be completed by the end of this week, is the latest conciliatory gesture by the South.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
But 50% of the country didn’t vote for a government shutdown and the dismantlement of the government and services that people rely on.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 7 July 2023
FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026
The plant, located in the Town of Carlton, closed in 2013 and began major dismantlement in 2022.
—Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Edison notifies the public 48 hours before batch releases, which will continue through the plant’s dismantlement (slated to wrap up in 2028-ish).
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 7 Jan. 2026
Another 13 canisters are filled with material classified as greater than Class C waste, collected during the dismantlement efforts at SONGS.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2025
Nevertheless, cybercrime should be reported to the FBI for intelligence gathering and to support efforts to disrupt ongoing operations, which can result in website takedowns, disruptions and dismantlement.
—Austin Berglas, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Her company used selective demolition and structural dismantlement on the exterior, which focused on preserving any salvageable building materials.
—Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2025
Latest gesture of conciliation The dismantlement of the loudspeakers, which is due to be completed by the end of this week, is the latest conciliatory gesture by the South.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
But 50% of the country didn’t vote for a government shutdown and the dismantlement of the government and services that people rely on.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 7 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dismantlement
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Only 236 kākāpō exist today, the vast majority on publicly inaccessible islands that have undergone pest-eradication programs.—
Tom Page,
CNN Money,
19 Mar. 2026
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The Gates Foundation funding was to support a polio eradication campaign in parts of rural Pakistan and Afghanistan, where years of vaccination progress had been undone after a CIA operation in Pakistan in which agents posed as vaccinators while hunting for Osama bin Laden.—
Clara Molot,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
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Effective training requires understanding how their joints move and how their vision systems interpret surroundings, allowing trainers to refine control methods and improve task execution efficiency, reports PDO.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Apr. 2026
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An execution warrant has been signed for James Ernest Hitchcock, the man convicted of the 1976 rape and murder of Cindy Driggers.—
WPEC Staff,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Apr. 2026
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To be fair, the effacement of character is itself one of Leitch’s dramatic points.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
2 May 2024
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There are times in The Years when the betrayal and effacement of May compels Ernaux to say something similar.—
Tobi Haslett,
Harper's Magazine,
18 Sep. 2023
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The slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Now amid the Greeley strike and other slaughter plant capacity reductions — including the closure of a major Tyson Foods’ plant in Nebraska — JBS and other companies are seeing profits increase, Martin said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Could Iran end up like Libya, where a NATO air campaign in 2011 helped topple a decades-old dictatorship, but paved the way for the disintegration of the Libyan state into a thicket of rival factions and warring militias?—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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When expectation and reality part ways for a cohort that’s been raised on the assumption of upward mobility—when elites start to sink, and reform is blocked—the political waters get very rough, often leading to social disintegration and unrest.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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Ghaemi said that this language was reminiscent of the propaganda that helped fuel and justify other historic atrocities, such as the massacres in Myanmar or Rwanda.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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And Glocks have been the killing machine of choice in some of America’s most horrifying massacres, including Virginia Tech in 2007, which left 33 dead, including the gunman, and the shooting at Borderline Bar and Grill in California in November 2018, where a gunman killed 13 people, then himself.—
Simon Akam,
Vanity Fair,
2 Apr. 2026
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Trump himself appeared to acknowledge a diffusion of power in Iran as a result of the American-Israeli assassination campaign.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Mangione faces numerous charges at the state and federal level in connection with the December 2024 assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a 50-year-old father of two from Minnesota who was in New York City for a work conference when a gunman snuck up behind him and opened fire.—
Michael Ruiz , Maria Paronich,
FOXNews.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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Cenotes are freshwater sinkhole caves formed from the collapse of limestone bedrock.—
Ryan Brennan
April 4,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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While the officiating certainly didn’t help the Huskies, their Final Four collapse went far beyond the way the game was called.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Dismantlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismantlement. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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