dismantle
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She ultimately decided to dismantle it so the room could better accommodate the household’s needs.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Some filmmakers willingly sought their money, Sivanandhan recalled, in arrangements that could benefit both sides and proved difficult for police to dismantle.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Some polymers contain bonds that microbial enzymes can attack, allowing bacteria to dismantle them into smaller molecules.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
But was it the singular experience that set a man on a decades-long mission to dismantle technological society?
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
It took a mind as precise and analytical as Aristotle’s to systematically dismantle Pythagoras’s theory of heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Assembly Bill 2555 dismantles and streamlines an aging system that some researchers said kept far too many students classified as English learners months or even years after mastering the language.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Justice Elena Kagan’s majority opinion on Monday dismantles that theory piece by piece.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
A consortium has agreed to buy Patrick Drahi’s French telecommunications operations for more than $23 billion, in a deal that dismantles a major plank of the billionaire’s once-sprawling business empire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Among the many quotes Ross left with his audience is one that dismantles intimidating concepts about natural ability, the kind of artistic gatekeeping we often impose on ourselves.
From Salon ● May 2, 2026
He dismantles the machine, stares into its circuits, lets his fingers trace the journeys of electrons.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Erdogan's government has dismantled restrictions on hijabs in Turkey.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
For decades after each racing season ended, factories reworked or dismantled their cars for parts, or else sold them with whatever chassis numbers and records existed for them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Both systems has been run by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a city-county joint powers agency in the process of being dismantled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
A nature reserve manager has finally dismantled a large wasps' nest in her office after the insects made it their home for four months.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
In Cuba, crews of Soviet soldiers dismantled the missile sites.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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He said his department is "committed to dismantling every layer of these organisations -- from their leadership to the corporate structures and financial facilitators that enable them to operate with impunity".
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
A barrier to entry is the cumbersome task of dismantling turbines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Those aspects of the deal, according to people with knowledge of how it came together, were designed to prevent future U.S. and Venezuelan leaders from dismantling the enterprise.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Eilish Rothney made a start at dismantling the nest on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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