demilitarize
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“President Trump and his team think they can get Hamas to disarm and demilitarize Gaza,” he said in a video.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Morgenthau’s plan to demilitarize and deindustrialize Germany was seized upon by the failing Nazi regime as a propaganda tool, and the Truman administration ultimately rejected it.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026
It’s what Camden, N.J., did when it famously dissolved its police force and started over to both reform it and demilitarize it.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
The move shows a change in tact by Casto, who has previously criticized the role of the military in previous administrations and pledged to "demilitarize citizen security" during her presidential campaign.
From Reuters ● Apr. 3, 2023
The question is, how can antagonistic nations demilitarize safely, without raising the risk of preemptive attacks?
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2022
Then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in organized a last-ditch gathering of all three leaders at the Korean demilitarized zone in 2019, but it failed to break the deadlock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Javelin recovered in this case was not demilitarized, prosecutors said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026
Israel has also pointed to what it says are “daily” violations along the demilitarized frontier by Syria.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024
As NPR noted, “It’s also a reminder that while the demilitarized zone divides the north and south, it did not sever centuries’ worth of Koreans’ shared family ties and culture.”
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024
It moved to the very edge of the Permian side, as if it was a demilitarized zone, and then stopped and came back the other way.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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He said they should always be "persevering in good even when evil is done to us, breaking the spiral of vengeance, disarming violence, demilitarizing the heart".
From Reuters ● Nov. 5, 2022
Mr. Grossi said he planned to contact both sides soon to propose concrete steps to begin demilitarizing the area.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
Discussions between India and Pakistan on demilitarizing the glacier have been unsuccessful.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
With Russia giving up its territorial claims in exchange for assurances about demilitarizing the long border between the two countries, their leaders signed a Treaty of Friendship and Alliance in February 1950.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2022
About demilitarizing the police as an “occupying force” in the community; reimagining police as “guardians,” not “warriors”; expunging “anti-Blackness” out of police practices; and changing interactions between Black youth and the police.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2021
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