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Another plan that was ultimately dismissed as being too impractical was using decommissioned military bunkers as artificial hibernation chambers for wintering bat populations. — Louis Sahagun, SFChronicle.com, "A deadly fungus is killing millions of bats in the US. Now it’s in California," 5 July 2019 But, in 1943, the band was decommissioned for the first of many times, only to be re-organized again. — Steve Smith, courant.com, "Vernon Summer Concerts Announced," 3 July 2019 Officials will also study whether $7.5 million leftover from decommissioning Dammasch State Hospital may fund local treatment centers. — oregonlive.com, "Top Oregon health official alerts governor to ‘crisis’ at psychiatric hospital," 7 June 2019 Since 1973, 4,100 of these platforms have been decommissioned. — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, "Shell platform transformed into artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico," 15 Feb. 2018 Japan’s largest utility is looking to foreign blue-collar workers to help decommission its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant amid a labor shortage exacerbated by radiation risks at the site of the 2011 nuclear disaster. — Mayumi Negishi, WSJ, "Japan Aims to Hire Foreigners for Nuclear Cleanup," 18 Apr. 2019 Shortly after, a Russian lawmaker charged that the United States stole samples while helping to decommission the facility where Novichok was made in the 1990s. — Matthew Bodner And Karla Adam, chicagotribune.com, "Britain's top diplomat accuses Putin of being behind Russian spy poisoning," 16 Mar. 2018 As that ship was decommissioned in 1997, the strategy has since changed. — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, "There's a Secret Plan in Place to Evacuate Queen Elizabeth in the Event of Brexit Riots," 4 Feb. 2019 Lime says that those models will be decommissioned, but did not tell the Post how many units are affected, or in which cities they’re being used in. — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, "Lime issues recall for a scooter model after reports that they can break apart," 10 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'decommission.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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