mothball
Example Sentences
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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
The place smelled real bad, a warmed-over stink of mothballs and something like sheep dip.
From Literature
Yet he expects “limited impact” in the near term from companies bringing mothballed sites back online.
The third reason is Iraq – OPEC’s second largest oil producer – has started to mothball production at some its biggest fields and could make further cuts in the coming days, according to a Bloomberg report.
From Barron's
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