mothball
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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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
David Chapman, executive director of UK Hospitality Cymru, said having to mothball rooms wasn't uncommon.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2024
Manolo Blahnik did a shoehorn, Isaac Mizrahi designed a mothball that’s a cube, so it didn’t roll, and I ran it at 30 pages with the title “Hey, Target: How About This?”
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
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
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
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
She also took something else out of the mothballs: the maiden name and hyphen that she’d set aside for simplicity’s sake during the race.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2022
Rowlf the philosophical piano-playing dog, a regular on “The Jimmy Dean Show” in the 1960s, is brought out of mothballs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2021
She probably keeps his clothes in here, packed in mothballs.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
The approved buyer of the mothballed residential, hotel and retail project is a partnership led by Kali P. Chaudhuri, whose KPC Development Co. owns and builds commercial properties in California and India.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The war could make it easier for Takaichi to reopen mothballed nuclear plants that were supplying 30% of the country’s electricity before the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
From Barron's ● May 14, 2026
After the gaffe, Ackman mothballed the IPO entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
Vivergo Fuels, which was owned by Associated British Foods and produced bioethanol, closed and Ensus's plant was mothballed.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
A boy’s cap hangs on the wall; at the back looms a massive wardrobe, mothballed shirts hung inside.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Parents celebrated a decision to halt the "mothballing" of any secondary school in the region in 2024.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Ackman set his sights lower this time compared with 2024, when he initially aimed to raise $25 billion, then lowered the target to around $2 billion before mothballing the listing entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
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
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
But that era ended when Alcoa terminated the Intalco agreement before mothballing the facility in 2020.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
