decommissioned

Example Sentences

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A couple of other alternatives, including reviving a decommissioned pipeline that connected Saudi fields with the Mediterranean Sea, could emerge in relatively short time.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

Navy decommissioned four specialist minesweepers, exposing limited mine-clearing assets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

The town could be decommissioned before then to allow over 800 local residents to be re-located elsewhere, making them the country's first climate refugees.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

The complaint points to the utility’s failure to de-energize its transmission lines that night, as well as its decision to leave up a decommissioned line that hadn’t carried electricity for decades.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026

I dropped my decommissioned backpack on the kitchen table and filled the kettle from the pitcher of filtered water I kept on the counter.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram