mothball
Example Sentences
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Although Lloyd may not care to look at them, there are all sorts of fancy metrics that illustrate exactly how odd it is for Arizona to mothball the 3-pointer.
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
Three of New Zealand’s eight navy ships—two offshore patrol vessels and one inshore patrol vessel—were mothballed.
Fountainhall Primary was mothballed - shut on a temporary basis - in 2025 but now the local authority is looking to begin the process to close its doors permanently.
From BBC
Taiwan is already “looking at restarting mothballed coal plants,” Knutson says.
From Barron's
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