decommissioned

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Spiers now thinks the show should be decommissioned, as in her view, its model is "completely flawed".

From BBC • May 27, 2026

Longer-term solutions for the Hormuz crisis would include even more pipelines, either by reviving decommissioned facilities or adding routes.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Navy decommissioned its last battleship in 1992, after the military recognized that battleships had become sitting ducks, vulnerable to modern military munitions that could pick off the vessel from the sky.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

Walker’s work was the only transformed statue out of the nearly dozen decommissioned statues related to the Confederacy featured in the “Monuments” exhibition.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 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