decommissioned

Example Sentences

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It was decommissioned and cleared out in 2001.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

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 • Feb. 10, 2026

The complaint points to the utility’s failure to de-energize its transmission lines that night, as well as its decision to leave up a decommissioned line that hadn’t carried electricity for decades.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026

It’s unusual for a man to be surprised that modern battleships are more advanced than ones decommissioned decades ago, but more interesting was his engagement in what he was saying.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

So now the soldiers round up the old village ladies, young mothers with their hair curled and pinned, wounded and decommissioned German soldiers.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper