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disband

[dis-band] / dɪsˈbænd /


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Other measures will allow the City Council to meet once a week and allow it to disband the Board of Public Works, and allocate more money to the Department of Recreation and Parks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

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

Last month, the trust announced it was planning to disband and transfer all its schools to other trusts.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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

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

The nine-member task force officially disbands Friday, but Democrat state Sen. Steven Bradford told the audience that the “final report is not the end of the work. It is really just the beginning.”

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

Crœsus disbands his army for the singular reason that it "was inferior in numbers to that of Cyrus."

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker

Some 521 ex-FARC signatories have been killed in the decade since the group disbanded, according to the Ombudsman report.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

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

She spent a year at La Masia, Barcelona's famous youth academy, but had to leave when her girls team was disbanded.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Right down the street from us was the Gaslight Café, a folk club my father co-managed after the Highwaymen disbanded in 1964.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Then almost as if at a signal, the crowd disbanded.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

They also say the five-member board wouldn’t just disappear, and disbanding it actually would require a two-thirds vote of the 15-member City Council.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

The group had successful albums and several chart smashes such as Beep, Stickwitu, Jai Ho! and When I Grow Up before eventually disbanding in 2010.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

He announced the disbanding of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2025

The voices of Edna’s disbanding guests jarred like a discordant note upon the quiet harmony of the night.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin


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