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dismantle

[dis-man-tl] / dɪsˈmæn tl /


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Some filmmakers willingly sought their money, Sivanandhan recalled, in arrangements that could benefit both sides and proved difficult for police to dismantle.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Some polymers contain bonds that microbial enzymes can attack, allowing bacteria to dismantle them into smaller molecules.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

But was it the singular experience that set a man on a decades-long mission to dismantle technological society?

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

Feve said the Romanian gangs’ decentralized nature makes them harder to dismantle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

I dismantle the original lights, bending back the nails that hold the power cord.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

“Collaboration recovers children sooner, links investigation, dismantles trafficking organizations and holds traffickers accountable. A trafficker should never escape accountability because critical information was sitting in another agency’s database.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The split effectively dismantles a 15-year strategy built on vertical integration.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

Justice Elena Kagan’s majority opinion on Monday dismantles that theory piece by piece.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

A consortium has agreed to buy Patrick Drahi’s French telecommunications operations for more than $23 billion, in a deal that dismantles a major plank of the billionaire’s once-sprawling business empire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

He dismantles the machine, stares into its circuits, lets his fingers trace the journeys of electrons.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Both systems has been run by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a city-county joint powers agency in the process of being dismantled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Local residents are determined to see them dismantled or, at the very least, prevent more from being built.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

To MidAmerican Energy, the wind turbines being taken down and dismantled at its Highland wind farm in O’Brien County, Iowa, are junk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

When American forces discovered and dismantled the B8 reactor in 1945, it had never achieved criticality.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

I labeled every piece as I dismantled it, and laid everything out on a table.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

A barrier to entry is the cumbersome task of dismantling turbines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Rothney started dismantling the nest on Tuesday and said that she knew in the autumn, it would be time for them to leave.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

The attacks led to the war in Afghanistan, which lasted for 20 years after the invasion’s initial success in dismantling al-Qaida and removing the Taliban government.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Newsom ordered the dismantling of San Quentin’s death row and execution chamber.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Were they all so busy dismantling operations that they didn’t have time to get in touch, or were they all mad at me and did they never want to talk to me again?

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen


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