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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The move dismantles an earlier bet on combined entertainment and distribution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Justice Elena Kagan’s majority opinion on Monday dismantles that theory piece by piece.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
"If England's attack fires and dismantles Australia's batting order, the McCullum-Stokes masterplan will have them join the list of successful English leaders in Australia."
From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025
A short, sharp campaign that dismantles the regime’s coercive tools could trigger elite defection.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2025
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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Officers have repeatedly dismantled encampments that have sprung up across Lisbon and Porto in recent weeks.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 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
Within hours of him admitting defeat on Sunday night, the camp was dismantled, and a team of volunteers moved in on Monday morning to clean up the mess.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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
I dismantled the pillow fort enough to make the couch sit-able again.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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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
“The Department of Justice will continue identifying and dismantling transnational criminal organizations that threaten the safety of the American people,” said Attorney General Todd Blanche.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 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
Rothney started dismantling the nest on Tuesday and said that she knew in the autumn, it would be time for them to leave.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Around town, they confused and horrified residents by doing things like dismantling a toaster with a screwdriver at the local department store to make sure the heating coil would toast the bread just so.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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