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The oilfield-services company, formerly known as Schlumberger, had to demobilize operations in a number of countries in response to customer actions to safeguard personnel and facilities, Le Peuch said Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

While the federal government may demobilize, the onus now has been pushed to the property owners to either finish the job.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

He’s also negotiating with the most powerful of Colombia’s armed groups – from leftist guerrillas to smaller trafficking mafias – in an effort to get them to demobilize simultaneously.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

Petro has pushed for what he calls a “total peace” that would demobilize all of the country’s remaining rebel groups as well as its drug trafficking gangs.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

She must demobilize all her naval and aerial forces.

From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill

It demobilizes, distracts, and depresses those who want to do better.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025

Baker won plaudits for the Central American plan that demobilizes the contras.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such sluggishness would scarcely reduce unemployment, which stands at 7.3% and could climb even higher as the Pentagon demobilizes the armed forces and slashes military contracts.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U.S. mobilized to fight World War II, then rapidly demobilized after it ended.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

But 10 years after the accords and in the face of electoral doom, Ramirez and most demobilized fighters say they remain committed to peace.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

In 2003, he joined a peace process under which paramilitary leaders demobilized in exchange for reduced sentences.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024

The JEP was established as part of a 2016 peace agreement between the state and the now demobilized FARC, which ended the rebel group's role in a conflict that has killed more than 450,000.

From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2023

In the postwar years, when an influx of demobilized students threatened to burst the seams of Berkeley’s outdated scientific facilities, California’s legislature and the university’s private patrons responded with unprecedented generosity.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Overprotected by parents in the physical world and underprotected in the virtual one, Generation Z has become ill-equipped to face and overcome crises while suffering from the demobilizing effects of depression and anxiety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

On the other hand, “feelings of depression are demobilizing and take you out of the political system,” said Ojeda, author of “The Sad Citizen: How Politics is Depressing and Why it Matters.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024

Jeronimo would not detail what Los Shottas would get out of demobilizing other than “the tranquility of the people.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

The bright side of all this is that far from demobilizing Muslims, it has coincided with a surge in Muslim civic engagement.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2018

On June 9, 1916, it was announced from Athens that the king had signed an order demobilizing twelve classes of the army, amounting to 150,000 men.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill