as in unusable
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as in killed
to cause to stop functioning
deactivate the machine carefully, or you'll risk an electric shock
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deactivated
Adjective
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The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) — intended as a backup to VAERS — is virtually unusable for serious research.—
Bonny Chu , Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2025 -
The tower illustrates what can happen when aging buildings don’t get renovated or replaced fast enough: Structures get deemed unsafe and unusable before the city has had time to design and build replacements.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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But in a time long before replay could overturn a call, protest was useless.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
16 May 2025
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Those strong starts are useless if the Celtics can’t hold onto the advantage.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
12 May 2025
Verb
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These can all be symptoms of the menopause transition, a natural process that a woman goes through as her brain and body wind down and eventually shut off the ability to reproduce.—
Andrea Kane,
CNN Money,
13 May 2025
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An 80 percent tariff, while a big drop from the current 145 percent, would still most likely shut off most trade between the countries.—
Alan Rappeport,
New York Times,
10 May 2025
Adjective
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The inability to raise the left can render his height advantage ineffective on the glass.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
9 May 2025
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Extracts of garlic, hot pepper, orange peels or companion planting are ineffective.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
7 May 2025
Adjective
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But for Varela and the other holdouts — roughly two dozen of whom stood defiantly on the side of West Flagler Street on Monday, protesting their potentially imminent removal under the punishing mid-morning sun — that deal was unworkable, both in time and money.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
20 May 2025
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But shooting an entire feature film on the famously big, loud and unwieldy Imax film cameras (unlike the lighter, quieter digital Imax cameras, used in recent films such as Thunderbolts* and the upcoming Superman) was unworkable.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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Just discerning what worries are irrational and unproductive can be a great start in reducing them.—
Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
1 May 2025
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In many organizations, there’s an unspoken perception that time spent chatting—especially in remote settings—equates to being unproductive.—
Toyna Chin,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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For a business, a high-speed connection can mean the difference between productive or ineffectual operations, customer satisfaction or abandonment, and ultimately profit or loss.—
Glenn Katz,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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We’re trapped behind a screen, too, and even more ineffectual at stopping these characters from hurting themselves and each other.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Course of trade in the oil industry often leaves the public on the hook for nonproductive well cleanup costs, including capping.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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Bring The Office Closer To Them As populations grow, the real challenge of coming to the office is long commute times and the resulting nonproductive cycles.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
14 Oct. 2024
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“Deactivated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deactivated. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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