dismantle

In her comments Thursday, Machado said the U.S.’s three-phase recovery plan for Venezuela was progressing, but complained that Rodríguez had yet to fully dismantle a repressive state apparatus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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

“It’s another medium for me to be able to articulate or dismantle those constructs around what makes sense together,” Kelela says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The Norfolk teachers’ case was just one of many in their master plan to dismantle the system of apartheid that existed in American schools and workplaces.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

The deal dismantles a major part of Drahi’s business empire, as he sells assets to lower debt amid rising interest rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

"If England's attack fires and dismantles Australia's batting order, the McCullum-Stokes masterplan will have them join the list of successful English leaders in Australia."

From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025

A short, sharp campaign that dismantles the regime’s coercive tools could trigger elite defection.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2025

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

For decades after each racing season ended, factories reworked or dismantled their cars for parts, or else sold them with whatever chassis numbers and records existed for them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Over that time, the authorities have dismantled 8,500 illegal pits.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Mel Willis had one of her hives partially dismantled.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

I surveyed the room; three tables over, a family was dismantling a Bloomin’ Onion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Such is the demand, he says, that deals to re-sell the parts are often done before he has even finished dismantling a vehicle.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

“The same time we’re talking about security partnerships, we’re seeing a dismantling of the judicial tools to fight crime,” she added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 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

But one of the many people who regularly brought unpleasant news of the deluge had told her that the company was dismantling its dispensaries to move them to where it was not raining.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez