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demilitarize

[dee-mil-i-tuh-rahyz] / diˈmɪl ɪ təˌraɪz /
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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 question is, how can antagonistic nations demilitarize safely, without raising the risk of preemptive attacks?

From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2022

Ukraine's top priority was to demilitarize the plant and the surrounding area, which has seen increased shelling in recent weeks, to avoid a nuclear accident, he said.

From Reuters ● Sep. 1, 2022

The Javelin recovered in this case was not demilitarized, prosecutors said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026

The U.S. is proposing a demilitarized “free economic zone” in the area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

Israel has also pointed to what it says are “daily” violations along the demilitarized frontier by Syria.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024

Vance zipped in afterward with a completely made-up plan about a "demilitarized zone" and a "guarantee of neutrality."

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2024

It moved to the very edge of the Permian side, as if it was a demilitarized zone, and then stopped and came back the other way.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

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

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

We need to reimagine some of the scenarios into which our law enforcement are being deployed, and we need to talk about demilitarizing local police forces.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2020




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