dismantle
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They then ran to a house and started to dismantle a fence.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
It took the 1951 Treasury-Fed Accord to dismantle the cap, followed by years of financial repression that quietly taxed a generation of savers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
It directs every relevant agency to investigate and dismantle its operations.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Local police superintendent ANM Sajedur Rahman said authorities lacked the resources to dismantle trafficking networks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
It took a mind as precise and analytical as Aristotle’s to systematically dismantle Pythagoras’s theory of heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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“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 move dismantles the bet on convergence Roberts made 15 years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Justice Elena Kagan’s majority opinion on Monday dismantles that theory piece by piece.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Among the many quotes Ross left with his audience is one that dismantles intimidating concepts about natural ability, the kind of artistic gatekeeping we often impose on ourselves.
From Salon ● May 2, 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
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The largely rural state has been a chemical industry centre since East German times, but many highly polluting and outdated factories were dismantled in the years after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
It’s the same pattern I found this summer in Taiwan’s temples, thick with incense and unbothered worshippers, versus the mainland faith largely dismantled in the Cultural Revolution and revived only under the party’s careful management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Bruno Guimaraes and Christos Tzolis showed they are additions of the highest quality as Arsenal dismantled Manchester City in the Community Shield.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Lula is credited with restoring social programs dismantled by his predecessor, curbing the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and putting Brazil's democracy back on a more secure footing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
For if it does, then it has broken its foremost oath and shall be forever dismantled, its members immediately banished from the supernatural world.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, made a career out of building illusions she delighted in dismantling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Zhu became known for his ardent anti-corruption drive, controversial dismantling of inefficient state-owned firms and integration of China with the global economy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
“So while AI is shifting the labor market, it is not dismantling it.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
For 58 seasons, through wars, impeachments and the corporate dismantling of the network news business around it, “60 Minutes” remained America’s highest-rated newsmagazine.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
“Great, now she’s dismantling the dryer,” thought Gregor, picking up speed.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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