- present participle of dismantle.
dismantling
Example Sentences
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After dismantling the main US body for delivering foreign assistance last year, the Trump administration is again offering hundreds of millions of dollars to African countries to support their healthcare structures and help fight disease.
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2026
This begins with two small “pilot zones” the IDF will hand to the Lebanese Armed Forces, which are charged with disarming “non-state armed groups”—the preferred Lebanese euphemism for Hezbollah—and dismantling terror infrastructure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026
The work suggests that resistant cancers may be made vulnerable once again, not by changing their genes, but by dismantling the repair systems that help them survive.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
Experts have been warning that dismantling global public health initiatives will end up hurting Americans, too, in the end.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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