mothballed

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Other mothballed projects include a quarter-mile-tall, cube-shaped building big enough to hold 25 Empire State Buildings, the Journal previously reported.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Three of New Zealand’s eight navy ships—two offshore patrol vessels and one inshore patrol vessel—were mothballed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

The Department for Business is expected to announce on Thursday that a site in Teesside, operated by Ensus, will restart operations after it was mothballed last year.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Taiwan is already “looking at restarting mothballed coal plants,” Knutson says.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

Whether it was staying with the boyfriend of the month, or in a foreclosed home, or luxuriating in a mothballed beach house, I’ve done fine.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman