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demobilize

[dee-moh-buh-lahyz] / diˈmoʊ bəˌlaɪz /
VERB
deactivate
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The oilfield-services company, formerly known as Schlumberger, had to demobilize operations in a number of countries in response to customer actions to safeguard personnel and facilities, Le Peuch said Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

The Army Corps and its contractors initially aimed to demobilize by Jan. 8, 2026, the one-year anniversary of the fires, but federal cleanup efforts finished much earlier than expected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2026

More men are avoiding military service, while calls to demobilize exhausted frontline soldiers have grown.

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2024

He’s also negotiating with the most powerful of Colombia’s mutating armed groups – from leftist guerrillas to smaller trafficking mafias – in an effort to get them to demobilize simultaneously.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

Consider the impression if you were seen here——” The ghost nodded, and began, very sensibly, I thought, to demobilize and evaporate.

From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough

It demobilizes, distracts, and depresses those who want to do better.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025

Baker won plaudits for the Central American plan that demobilizes the contras.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such sluggishness would scarcely reduce unemployment, which stands at 7.3% and could climb even higher as the Pentagon demobilizes the armed forces and slashes military contracts.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U.S. mobilized to fight World War II, then rapidly demobilized after it ended.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

“SLB demobilized operations in a number of countries in response to customer actions to safeguard personnel and facilities,” Le Peuch said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

The JEP was established as part of a 2016 peace agreement between the state and the now demobilized FARC, which ended the rebel group's role in a conflict that has killed more than 450,000.

From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2023

Mancuso, 59, was one of the rural paramilitary bosses to most eagerly embrace reconciliation efforts when he and some 30,000 other right-wing fighters demobilized under the 2005 Justice and Peace law.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

In the postwar years, when an influx of demobilized students threatened to burst the seams of Berkeley’s outdated scientific facilities, California’s legislature and the university’s private patrons responded with unprecedented generosity.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Overprotected by parents in the physical world and underprotected in the virtual one, Generation Z has become ill-equipped to face and overcome crises while suffering from the demobilizing effects of depression and anxiety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The 3.4% decline in 2020 was still the biggest annual decline for GDP since an 11.6% drop in 1946 when the country was demobilizing after World War II.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

The bright side of all this is that far from demobilizing Muslims, it has coincided with a surge in Muslim civic engagement.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2018

Besides demobilizing the armed forces and preparing for the homecoming of servicemen and women, he also had to guide the nation through the process of returning to a peacetime economy.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

The King in this crisis behaved well, and put Deliyanni in the alternative of demobilizing or resigning; and, when he chose the latter course, the King called Tricoupi to form a ministry.

From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II by William James Stillman




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