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demilitarize

[dee-mil-i-tuh-rahyz] / diˈmɪl ɪ təˌraɪz /
VERB
deactivate
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“President Trump and his team think they can get Hamas to disarm and demilitarize Gaza,” he said in a video.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Morgenthau’s plan to demilitarize and deindustrialize Germany was seized upon by the failing Nazi regime as a propaganda tool, and the Truman administration ultimately rejected it.

From Salon Mar. 25, 2026

It’s what Camden, N.J., did when it famously dissolved its police force and started over to both reform it and demilitarize it.

From Seattle Times Sep. 13, 2023

The move shows a change in tact by Casto, who has previously criticized the role of the military in previous administrations and pledged to "demilitarize citizen security" during her presidential campaign.

From Reuters Apr. 3, 2023

The question is, how can antagonistic nations demilitarize safely, without raising the risk of preemptive attacks?

From Scientific American Sep. 28, 2022

Why did you set the story in the demilitarized zone?

From Los Angeles Times May 17, 2026

Russia was likely to object to provisions including a demilitarized zone in the Donetsk area, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 14, 2025

That region would reportedly become a demilitarized zone under the plan.

From Salon Nov. 20, 2025

Now, they see Israeli forces routinely moving around their own village, parts of which jut into the demilitarized zone.

From BBC Dec. 15, 2024

On the morning of March 7, thirty thousand German troops had rolled into the demilitarized Rhineland, in open defiance of both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact to which Germany was a signatory.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

He said they should always be "persevering in good even when evil is done to us, breaking the spiral of vengeance, disarming violence, demilitarizing the heart".

From Reuters Nov. 5, 2022

Mr. Grossi said he planned to contact both sides soon to propose concrete steps to begin demilitarizing the area.

From New York Times Sep. 6, 2022

When asked by a reporter if there was any hope of demilitarizing the plant, Grossi said it was a matter of “political will” in the countries involved in the conflict, “in particular, the Russian Federation.”

From Washington Post Aug. 31, 2022

Discussions between India and Pakistan on demilitarizing the glacier have been unsuccessful.

From Seattle Times Aug. 17, 2022

With Russia giving up its territorial claims in exchange for assurances about demilitarizing the long border between the two countries, their leaders signed a Treaty of Friendship and Alliance in February 1950.

From Salon Mar. 13, 2022




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