demilitarize
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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
That would likely resemble a previous 1974 nonaggression pact that established a demilitarized buffer zone between the two countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 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
Other than that, we keep on our own sides of the demilitarized zone.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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
Among Gorbachev’s most trusted confidants, he was a tireless proponent of the “new thinking” that would reform the Soviet Union after years of stagnation, demilitarizing its foreign policy and seeking glasnost, or openness, at home.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2017
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