decommission
Example Sentences
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Navy’s few specialist minesweepers were on the move—to Philadelphia and their eventual decommissioning.
Elders in wheelchairs sit in the sun beside decommissioned shopping malls, whose main purpose seems to be to hold adult daycare centers for senior citizens.
From Los Angeles Times
Dangerously high radiation levels make removing melted fuel and other debris from the plant hit by a huge tsunami in 2011 the most daunting challenge in the decades-long decommissioning project.
From Barron's
Walker’s work was the only transformed statue out of the nearly dozen decommissioned statues related to the Confederacy featured in the “Monuments” exhibition.
From Los Angeles Times
The town could be decommissioned before then to allow over 800 local residents to be re-located elsewhere, making them the country's first climate refugees.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
