deactivate
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"A traditional minesweeper which is conducting slow, painstaking work is going to find it tricky to hunt for mines and deactivate them if they are also under air and surface attack," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
Nearly 50 cities nationwide have opted to deactivate their scanners or cancel contracts with Flock, mostly in recent months, according to the website DeFlock.me, which has set out to map locations of the company’s cameras.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026
Earlier work from his group showed that when resveratrol and copper are combined, they generate oxygen radicals that deactivate or destroy cfChPs.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 10, 2025
Last month, the government said social media giants will not be required to verify the ages of all users, but must take "reasonable steps" to detect and deactivate underage ones.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
Then, I'll deactivate the atmospheric regulator, so it doesn't pull water out of the air.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
Meta deactivates accounts that it suspects are underage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Similar to the way that HR deactivates an employee's logins when they leave, there needs to be a process for shutting down AI agents that have finished their work, he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
Julian Crowley, a DoorDash spokesperson, denied that DoorDash deactivates the accounts of workers who take time off after being injured, calling this claim "incredibly loaded and frankly totally wrong."
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2024
Omalizumab is an injected antibody that binds and deactivates all types of immunoglobin E, or IgE, the allergy-causing molecule in the blood and on the body's immune cells.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 25, 2024
The activation of a shielding model also deactivates the protection structure of a person or at least some section of it.
From The Brain, A Decoded Enigma by Dorin Teodor Moisa
When the gene was deactivated in older worker bees, the insects began caring for the queen again.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
Since 2019, 4.4 gigawatts of power have been deactivated, while 2.9 gigawatts have been added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
According to American news website Axios, companies such as Morgan & Morgan and Sokolove Law saw "dozens" of their adverts on social media addiction clients deactivated.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
Northstar’s media contact number has been deactivated and an email to the resort was not immediately returned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
“Trust me, I’m not happy about this situation either, but all of the staff here at the mountain have been deactivated, which means that you are the only option.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Tech companies said they would comply with the ban, and some began deactivating accounts before the law came into effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has started deactivating accounts based on information such as the age given when they were created.
From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025
Pretty Little Thing faced a backlash when it started deactivating accounts it said had high rates of return last year.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025
Indeed, deactivating sensory neurons that monitor the fly's head position altered how the insect moved when the scientists stimulated the motor neurons.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
Petey snapped his fingers, deactivating the gravity dampeners.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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