decommission
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In the summer of 2026, Trump seemingly began to waver on whether the Qatari plane would go to his library, or whether he might try to decommission a different presidential plane and transfer that one.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
Legacy sales slid 25% to $1.52 billion due to lower demand as the company continues to decommission its copper-based network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
It will also administer and implement a process to decommission and store heavy weapons, military production sites, depots of weapons, and tunnels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The roadmap lays out a process to decommission and store Hamas's heavy weapons, military production sites, weapons depots and tunnels, to be implemented by NCAG.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Brombil Reservoir Ltd warned that without public sector support or a partnership agreement, it could be forced to "decommission the reservoir".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Florida-based Holtec makes equipment to store nuclear waste and decommissions existing nuclear plants.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
"The volume of material is enormous compared to past decommissions."
From Scientific American ● Apr. 29, 2011
One of the friendly ones, of course, a decommissioned mothership perhaps, here on a diplomatic mission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Instead, in stages linked to Israeli withdrawals, the weapons would be decommissioned and stored by precisely the people whom Hamas can intimidate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Earlier, a diplomatic source told AFP that the roadmap "offers a balanced and pragmatic path forward, with all weapons decommissioned and a phased transition of responsibilities" to the new authorities.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
The project is located on a decommissioned uranium-enrichment site on federal land in southern Ohio, and the campus would require 10 gigawatts of electricity.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 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
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For a time he specialised in nuclear work and decommissioning, designing robots for pulling material out of contaminated tanks.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
He became one of the UUP's biggest critics of the deal over issues like the IRA's decommissioning of weapons, warning his then leader David Trimble against supporting it.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Continental Development executive Bob Tarnofsky said the team learned about “previously undisclosed higher decommissioning and demolition costs, a more complicated approval process, and greater environmental risk mitigation” after submitting the proposal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
A $2.4 billion escrow fund required by the Federal Communications Commission will stay in place to handle network decommissioning claims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Before decommissioning in November 1944, the Sea Cloud served on ocean weather stations off the coasts of Greenland, Newfoundland, and France.
From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor
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