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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

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

Petro has pushed for what he calls a “total peace” that would demobilize all of the country’s remaining rebel groups as well as its drug trafficking gangs.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

The treaty was signed three days ago at Bucharest; and the decree for our army to demobilize was issued yesterday.

From Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw

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

“A final plan for demobilizing the remaining sites is being prepared.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

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

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