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disband

[dis-band] / dɪsˈbænd /


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Last year the PKK announced plans to disband and disarm, following a call from its jailed founder and longtime leader Ocalan.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

Rather than disband the Vermont Rainbow Coalition after the 1984 primary, they kept the group going, endorsing candidates in campaigns for the legislature and statewide office in each of the next three election cycles.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026

In 1949, Down Beat magazine, long a champion, even urged him to disband.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

It was the inner circle, a cabal I’d tried to disband for more than a decade.

From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026

The survivors shovel the soil over the coffins and disband.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Such a rebuild may include the promotion of some of the club's best academy players, who stand to benefit if the first-team squad disbands.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Before the mayor disbands the SRG, I would urge him to check the facts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

It disbands a myriad of existing working groups and replaces them with a centralized system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

But with little time left before Congress disbands for the year, it is unclear whether lawmakers will take any further steps to bring Rosenstein back for an interview.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2018

It arms, disarms, raises and disbands Officers and Soldiers, without being accomptable to the State.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

In yet another sign that the company is tightening its focus on commercial AI applications, Google disbanded its AlphaFold research team in July.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

While the Frames never officially disbanded, Hansard released albums as a duo with Irglová under the Swell Season moniker and as a solo artist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

David Koepp, who wrote the screenplay based on an original story by Spielberg, referenced real-life congressional testimony and reports from Project Blue Book, an Air Force program which investigated UFOs that was disbanded in 1969.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Hattersley also disbanded the B Specials, the controversial reserve police force, replacing it with the Ulster Defence Regiment.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

In 1947, the laboratory disbanded East Computing, rerouting all open assignments to West Computing.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

A judge ruled against his clients in one of two lawsuits he brought challenging Mamdani’s disbanding of a commission appointed by his mayoral predecessor to recommend changes to the city’s charter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Before disbanding in 1991, it was the only such alliance in history whose members invaded each other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

The group went on to achieve a string of top 10 hits and sold millions of albums before disbanding in 2013.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026

He announced the disbanding of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2025

That when he goes home, he won’t have to constantly freak out about his squad disbanding.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera




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