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dismantle

[dis-man-tl] / dɪsˈmæn tl /


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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

In late July, the company said it would dismantle them and replace them with a power plant that is up to code.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

The misconduct investigation has put the institution under a glaring spotlight, intensified divisions inside it and played out alongside an unprecedented campaign to weaken, and in fact dismantle, the ICC in its entirety.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

The prophecy states that they’ll acquire the powers of “Break” – to dismantle or undo something – and “Seal” to contain, reconstruct or suppress something.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

However, when she attempted to dismantle the old brown sofa she’d spent so many hours lounging on, Jinny found that even the cushions didn’t want to cooperate with her.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

Raman contends that Bass’ signature program Inside Safe, which dismantles encampments and moves people living there into motels, hotels and interim housing, is overly expensive and unsustainable.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

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

From Slate Jun. 29, 2026

A consortium has agreed to buy Patrick Drahi’s French telecommunications operations for more than $23 billion, in a deal that dismantles a major plank of the billionaire’s once-sprawling business empire.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 2026

"This obviously completely dismantles Hugo Chavez’s oil model," said oil analyst Francisco Monaldi, while pointing out that the state will retain some discretion over the issuing of contracts to private players.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 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

The largely rural state has been a chemical industry centre since East German times, but many highly polluting and outdated factories were dismantled in the years after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.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

By the time the beavers were trapped and their dams dismantled, a few dozen acres of trees were dead and too dangerous to remove.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

On Monday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had claimed the US had "dismantled Iran's military capabilities, destroyed nearly 100 percent of its military factories, and buried its nuclear programme".

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

However, he will have to turn psychologist once more as the new Spurs looked like the old Spurs as they were dismantled in the west London sunshine.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

But as Galton’s hypothesis about “ancestral inheritance” had been dismantled, piece by piece, by Bateson and de Vries, Galton had taken a sharp turn from a descriptive impulse to a prescriptive one.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Polizzi estimated that he’d spend more than $50,000 trying to get proper city approvals before dismantling the treehouse in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 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

Armando Novoa, the government representative who negotiated with the group, has sought to reassure them that legal protections prevent De la Espriella from dismantling the accord.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

Of all his impressionable Viennese pupils, none embraced this dismantling of tonality quite as enthusiastically as Arnold Schoenberg.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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