decommission
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In the summer of 2026, Trump seemingly began to waver on whether the Qatari plane would go to his library, or whether he might try to decommission a different presidential plane and transfer that one.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
It will also administer and implement a process to decommission and store heavy weapons, military production sites, depots of weapons, and tunnels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The roadmap lays out a process to decommission and store Hamas's heavy weapons, military production sites, weapons depots and tunnels, to be implemented by NCAG.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Starmer's gifted firearm has been left with British officials in Turkey, and they are expected to decommission it so it can no longer fire live rounds.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Legacy sales declined 25% due to lower demand as the company continues to decommission its copper-based network, while Latin America sales rose 21%, due in part to favorable foreign-exchange effects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Florida-based Holtec makes equipment to store nuclear waste and decommissions existing nuclear plants.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
"The volume of material is enormous compared to past decommissions."
From Scientific American ● Apr. 29, 2011
The company has decommissioned the tank involved in the incident, it said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Earlier, a diplomatic source told AFP that the roadmap "offers a balanced and pragmatic path forward, with all weapons decommissioned and a phased transition of responsibilities" to the new authorities.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
The project is located on a decommissioned uranium-enrichment site on federal land in southern Ohio, and the campus would require 10 gigawatts of electricity.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
The project is on a decommissioned uranium-enrichment site about 50 miles south of Columbus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The station was decommissioned nine years ago for lack of funds, at which time the basket was supposed to be chained and locked to the tower on our side—the highway side—of the river.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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For a time he specialised in nuclear work and decommissioning, designing robots for pulling material out of contaminated tanks.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
However, Lane said there will be benefits to the decommissioning of the captive bird collection.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
A roadmap agreed by Hamas on July 30 said that the decommissioning of weapons would be supervised by the International Stabilization Force, the nascent unit that aims to deploy to Gaza if the situation calms.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Continental Development executive Bob Tarnofsky said the team learned about “previously undisclosed higher decommissioning and demolition costs, a more complicated approval process, and greater environmental risk mitigation” after submitting the proposal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Before decommissioning in November 1944, the Sea Cloud served on ocean weather stations off the coasts of Greenland, Newfoundland, and France.
From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor
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