mothball
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Meanwhile, the metal’s prices could be supported by supply concerns after miner South32 disclosed plans to mothball its smelter in Mozambique, according to the analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
At Pascagoula Hospital, the city’s only acute-care health facility, a wave of departures has left 80 unfilled openings for registered nurses, forcing administrators to mothball a third of its beds.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2022
Also, the shipyard is home to a mothball fleet — many ships on the way to scrapping — which fluctuates in size.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
Briant has had to mothball the giant inflatable walk-through colon she used to send to events in tribal areas and gatherings of agricultural workers throughout Washington State.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2021
For example, many combat ships are being returned to active duty from the "mothball fleet" and many others can be put into service on very short notice.
From State of the Union Address by Harry S. Truman
I may still need to get my megaphone out of mothballs after all.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
A new sofa with firm cushions and pristine fabric outshines an old, dusty, worn-in couch that smells like mothballs.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2022
Growing up, restaurateur Andy Kalish associated two smells with Friday nights: his grandmother's chicken soup and mothballs in his grandfather's closet.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2022
The September 1974 journal, dog-eared and smelling of pipe smoke and mothballs, included the first published reference to Morgan commissioning the timepiece.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
Then she and Blanca set about the task of covering all the furniture in sheets and blanketing the house with mothballs.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
When the Toreros needed cold-weather clothing for a game at Dayton, Harbaugh cajoled the Chargers, where he spent part of his playing career, into donating some of their mothballed gear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Plans were approved, then mothballed, and then resurrected.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
After the gaffe, Ackman mothballed the IPO entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 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
Goldman Sachs raised its second-quarter Brent crude forecast by $10 to $76 a barrel, as Iraq began mothballing some oil production.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
Critics say this mothballing will amount to a death warrant, and have asked San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors to give the fountain another chance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
And it would vindicate the Dodgers’ strategy of all but mothballing an elite starting pitcher for almost three weeks and then handing him the ball and asking him to win them the division series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Arcadium Lithium followed suit this month, announcing that it would be mothballing its Mt Cattlin mine in Western Australia, blaming low prices.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2024
But in recent months, Goldman has signaled a partial retreat from those efforts by scrapping plans for a checking account broadly available to the public and mothballing its personal loan business.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
