Examples of demobilize in a Sentence
Both leaders agreed to demobilize their armies and sign the peace treaty.
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First, Netanyahu continues to assume that tightening the squeeze on Hamas will eventually pressure the organization to wave the white flag, demobilize and agree to exile itself into irrelevance.
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Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Tens of thousands of combatants need to be demobilized.
—Joshua Z. Walker, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
The order came two weeks after the Marines sent to Los Angeles left and a week after the Trump administration demobilized most of the National Guard.
—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
Colombia’s truth commission says paramilitary groups, which demobilized under deals with Uribe’s government, killed more than 205,000 people, nearly half of the 450,000 deaths recorded during the ongoing civil conflict.
—CNN Money, 28 July 2025
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Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
Tens of thousands of combatants need to be demobilized.
—Joshua Z. Walker, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2025
The order came two weeks after the Marines sent to Los Angeles left and a week after the Trump administration demobilized most of the National Guard.
—Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
Colombia’s truth commission says paramilitary groups, which demobilized under deals with Uribe’s government, killed more than 205,000 people, nearly half of the 450,000 deaths recorded during the ongoing civil conflict.
—CNN Money, 28 July 2025
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“Demobilize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demobilize. Accessed 31 Aug. 2025.
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demobilize
verb
de·mo·bi·lize
di-ˈmō-bə-ˌlīz 
(ˈ)dē-
1
: to dismiss from military service
demobilize an army
2
: to change from a state of war to a state of peace
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