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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

While the federal government may demobilize, the onus now has been pushed to the property owners to either finish the job.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

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

From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2024

A delegate for Los Shottas told The Associated Press that the group hopes for peace, but would only demobilize if every single armed group in Colombia also sets down their weapons.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

The summons to demobilize was met by a point-blank refusal, when the fleets of the powers—Russia and France excepted—entered on the scene, and the blockade of the Greek coast was declared.

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

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

But 10 years after the accords and in the face of electoral doom, Ramirez and most demobilized fighters say they remain committed to peace.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

But perhaps as important as what was included in the legislation is what was cut out — particularly a timeline for when conscripted soldiers will be demobilized.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024

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

When the enlisted women were demobilized, they had to sign a pledge promising they’d do just that—not say anything about what they’d done.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

“There are a lot of state resources in the field that have been decreasingly utilized that we are demobilizing over time.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

Defense Minister Diego Molano said in an interview that the military was making “every effort” to fight these new groups by redoubling its focus on taking out ringleaders, eradicating coca and demobilizing fighters.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

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

On June 9, 1916, it was announced from Athens that the king had signed an order demobilizing twelve classes of the army, amounting to 150,000 men.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill