How to Use phaseout in a Sentence

phaseout

1 of 2 noun
  • And who was in on that deal, six years ago, to begin the phaseout?
    Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The draft does not set out a timeline for the phaseout or the exemption.
    Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
  • There was an income phaseout, of course, but that's not all.
    Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Two years ago, there were fiery debates over a phaseout of coal.
    WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The company expects to complete the phaseout by the end of 2020.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
  • That was due in part to an earlier step in the tax credit's year-long phaseout.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2020
  • But Poland is fiercely resisting the calls for a rapid phaseout of coal.
    CNN, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The phaseout had been on track to begin earlier, in 2019.
    New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • That projection was echoed in the coal phaseout signed in Scotland last week.
    Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Opposition to the phaseout does not just come from the tech sector.
    Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Climate envoy John Kerry has balked at the idea of committing the U.S. to a coal phaseout.
    Aaron Regunberg, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Plus, the phaseout income limits for contributing to a Roth IRA are bumped up.
    Ashlea Ebeling, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Democrats, who control the House, proposed a slow phaseout of the moratorium.
    Jessie Van Berkel Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The budget provides $64 million to move up the final step in the phaseout of the automobile excise tax to this year, rather than next.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2022
  • Tourneur said, adding that the exemptions will only delay and reduce the scope of the country's plastic phaseout.
    Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Last year, there was a movement by the European Union and others to phase out fossil fuels—to begin the phaseout.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The income tax phaseout bill passed by the Kentucky House now goes to the state senate for consideration.
    Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Further, the draft agreement doesn’t set a timeframe for the phaseout of coal or end to fossil fuel subsidies.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Those groups have proposed a more gradual phaseout of the natural gas plants.
    Dan Petrella, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2021
  • So in this way, a potential coal phaseout in India would have far-reaching effects.
    Vigya Sharma, Quartz, 27 July 2021
  • Europe will likely order a phaseout of these substances later this year, putting the heat-pump industry in a bind.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Likewise, the income phaseout range for married couples and head of household filers will also get a boost.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Germany previously wanted to wait until the end of the year for a full embargo, but is now talking about a phaseout over a few months.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 2 May 2022
  • Culver City recently approved a similar phaseout of oil drilling over the next five years.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The new rule is intended to decrease U.S. production and use of the gases by 85% over the next 15 years, part of a global phaseout intended to slow climate change.
    Matthew Daly, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
  • The city’s transitional phaseout of the curbs will run from Oct. 12-25, according to a statement from the local government.
    Eko Listiyorini, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Apple clearly is getting a headstart on the phaseout with its new iPhone 15 offerings.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Dec. 2022
  • And that, in turn, will help bring about a shift in capital allocation, and thus, the transition away from—or phaseout of—fossil fuels.
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Over the weekend, officials and diplomats in Brussels discussed the idea of a phaseout by the end of 2022, but Hungary and Slovakia pushed back, according to the diplomats and the official.
    Washington Post, 3 May 2022
  • California’s gas-car phaseout brings turmoil to mom-and-pop gas stations.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
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phase out

2 of 2 verb
  • In 2022, the council voted to ban new wells and phase out old ones over the next two decades.
    Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Their use is now mostly phased out in the U.S., but some still remain.
    Joey Cappelletti, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The Trump-era tax cuts will phase out at the end of 2025 unless they are extended.
    Bailey McCann, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The Marines still use the fighter jet, but it is slowly being phased out and replaced by the F-35.
    Erika I. Ritchie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The deal does not require countries to phase out or phase down the use of fossil fuels.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The national and local governments have struck a deal with RWE to phase out coal in the state by 2030.
    Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Oceana wants to see the company phase out plastic packaging in its home base, the US.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Yet the day will come when SypherPK will phase out of streaming, Hassan says, maybe in as little as five years.
    Matt Craig, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • It’s being phased out with a more streamlined style that harkens back to a women’s smoking loafers.
    Laura Jackson, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Afterward, Google plans to phase out the use of third-party cookies for all users in the second half of 2024.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
  • California is the first state in the nation to phase out such bags, according to The Seattle Times.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Apple was already phasing out the iPhone 12 just as the issue flared up.
    Mark Gurman, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • With the growth in the ad tier, the company repeated its plans to phase out its Basic membership tier in the coming months.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Against this backdrop, calls to phase out the use of coal, gas and oil are growing more urgent than ever before.
    David Gelles, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Australia Australia will phase out gill net fishing in the Great Barrier Reef by 2027.
    Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The state is also requiring that a growing share of truck sales and fleets in the state run on clean fuels, with a goal of phasing out diesel big rigs over the next two decades.
    Paul Berger, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
  • This is all good news for governments that have set aggressive targets to phase out gas car sales by 2035.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2022
  • One of the controversial parts of the plan was phasing out the district’s 120 armed guardian positions.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The state would phase out a different program that provides some state support for districts that have passed bonds.
    Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 9 Feb. 2024
  • In 2022, environmental groups filed a petition with the state requesting that use of the gas be phased out.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Workers making gasoline engines and transmissions will need a place to work when their plants are phased out.
    Tom Krisher, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Later this year, Dublin plans to phase out through traffic in its city center in order to help meet emissions goals and unclog the downtown area.
    Mike Gagliardi, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2024
  • For 2024, the exemption amounts and the income level at which the exemption begins to phase out, will be adjusted.
    Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Although their use has mostly been phased out in the U.S., their prevalence in the environment remains a concern.
    Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • With no dissenting vote, lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that will phase out the farming, slaughter and sale of dog meat by 2027.
    Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2024
  • New vehicles are being purchased to phase out an aging fleet.
    María Ramos Pacheco, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Metro is slowly phasing out its fleet under a plan that adds more electric buses each year to replace others that are worn out.
    Justin George, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Investment banks, which a year ago were pledging to phase out funding for fossil fuel investments around the world, have changed their tune.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The Sharm deal doesn’t include a commitment to phase out all fossil fuels or any guarantee that emissions will peak by 2025.
    Bypaul Polman, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Spokeswoman Jannah Jablonowski said the Akron/Canton market will phase out weekly ads at a later date.
    Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 12 Dec. 2022

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