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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

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

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 summons came from the powers to demobilize, or the Greek coast would be blockaded.

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

Most had already been demobilized, with the US military saying 100 Guard troops remained deployed at the time.

From Barron's Dec. 31, 2025

Prisoners serving in the army would be integrated into special units for the duration of martial law, meaning that they would not be demobilized until the end of the war.

From New York Times May 8, 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

In the postwar years, when an influx of demobilized students threatened to burst the seams of Berkeley’s outdated scientific facilities, California’s legislature and the university’s private patrons responded with unprecedented generosity.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

On the other hand, “feelings of depression are demobilizing and take you out of the political system,” said Ojeda, author of “The Sad Citizen: How Politics is Depressing and Why it Matters.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 20, 2024

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

We shall yet be faced with the question of demobilizing a considerable part of this fleet into private hands, or frankly acknowledging that we operate it for other reasons than interest on our investment.

From Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg




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