as in neglect
lack of use since the car has experienced years of disuse, starting it up won't be easy

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Recent Examples of disuse So many mainstream film characters, especially ones assigned to women, act like windup dolls that sputter into disuse when their scenes end. Julia Whelan Emma Kehlbeck Joel Thibodeau, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025 By around 2010, the Cow Palace aged and fell into a state of financial disarray and physical disuse. Daniel Brown, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025 And devotion, for the male anglerfish, means gripping on with his teeth to her underside until their bodies fuse together, his eyes fall into disuse, and their bloodstreams become one. Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024 Ironically, despite using several filmmaking techniques and styles from the silent era that have long since fallen into disuse, Shadow of the Vampire is a vital new lens through which to view the foundational vampire story. James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for disuse
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Noun
  • The Volusia Sheriff’s Office posted video of Scott Allen Gardner being apprehended on Thursday on charges of aggravated manslaughter of a child and child neglect causing great bodily harm.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 20 June 2025
  • London spoke about his case at a press conference earlier this month, where Barbara Fair, the executive director of Stop Solitary CT, referred to him as someone who had experienced medical neglect first-hand within the Department of Correction.
    Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2025
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  • Global executives bemoan the negative impacts of poor customer onboarding and subsequent abandonment.
    Alfred Kahn, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • In recent years, challenges from Russian aggression to Chinese mercantilism to American abandonment have revealed just how unprepared a demilitarized Europe is to handle old-fashioned power politics.
    Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025

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“Disuse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disuse. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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