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disassemble

[dis-uh-sem-buhl] / ˌdɪs əˈsɛm bəl /
VERB
take apart
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Even an 11-minute musical performance could still require the break to be extended, given the time likely required to set up and disassemble the show.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

“This Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts,” Rufe wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026

The modular building took 10 weeks to install - including laying its foundations - and will take just days to disassemble when it is no longer required.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

The project to disassemble and eventually rebuild the chapel is expected to take four years.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

For ten hours a day, six days a week, they disassemble massive forging presses and stack the usable metal in crates to be loaded onto train cars.

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

As she stomps and shouts and disassembles, I sit here, still cross-legged on the bed, and wonder whether it’s too late in the day to jump on a train and head into work.

From The Verge ● Aug. 1, 2022

Located in Tar Heel, N.C., that slaughterhouse disassembles about 32,000 hogs a day.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins In her bold and strange novel, Watkins disassembles the mythology of the American west, paying particular attention to its brutal expansionism and unquestioned promise of personal reinvention.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2020

A small Detroit-area firm that disassembles new cars and analyzes them down to the nuts and bolts picked apart Tesla’s Model 3 sedans.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2018

The energy yield depends on the amount of uranium and the time it can be held together before it disassembles itself.

From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015

The German firm said it had disassembled the rocket to carry out investigations.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

She digitally "disassembled" the fossil one bone at a time and uncovered several anatomical features that differed from known Hesperosuchus specimens.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

Bicycle parts were of particular interest, hence the tented “bike shops,” with piles of disassembled parts, so common in L.A. encampments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

EUV machines are so massive that they have to be disassembled before they can be shipped to clients by three 747 planes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

Dad had found the pew, disassembled, in the basement of our cottage.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

But she didn’t want to tackle sanding, disassembling and repainting the latter entirely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The company has not issued any official statement about disassembling its changing rooms.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

From all accounts, Israeli and American military strikes are meeting and even exceeding their goals of disassembling the regime’s infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

There, Mark finds Gemma serenely disassembling the crib, and coaxes her to run with him.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025

The next time we saw him, he was in uniform, assigned to motion study training in assembling and disassembling the Lewis machine gun and other automatic weapons.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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