dismantle

Example Sentences

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Washington also must dismantle Iran’s shadow banking system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Washington has for decades led efforts to dismantle North Korea's nuclear programme, but summits, sanctions and diplomatic pressure have had little impact.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

“The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks,” Miller wrote in a statement.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

There are a host of ways to dismantle Huckabee’s argument, and it’s important to do so.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 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