decommissioned

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Recent Examples of decommissioned The agreement concerns the potential development of a commercial fusion power plant at the site of the decommissioned Bull Run Fossil Plant near Knoxville, Tennessee. Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025 The decommissioned Navy barge from the outside. Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decommissioned
Adjective
  • After a wholly inactive offseason outside of the draft, Golden State is bolstering its rotation with not a moment to spare until training camp.
    Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Today, Narrow Way remains closed, and the café's social media accounts have been inactive since the 2022 announcement.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Since Buzzard's Roost opened in 2023, the staff has experienced unexplained broken glasses, books falling off the shelf and many elevator and electronic glitches.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Wednesday night attack at the apartment in the 2800 block of Corabel Lane began as an argument between the husband and wife over a broken personal computer tablet, officials said.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Of those who reported incidents, none saw a low voltage battery warning before the exterior door handles became inoperative.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • But the speed came from all three levels of Green Bay’s defense, rendering Washington’s offense almost inoperative.
    Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Drivers say their contract issues center on pay as well as safety issues, including nonfunctioning heaters, loudspeakers and windshield wipers.
    Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • In 2020, the state of Virginia passed some bills limiting pretextual traffic stops—for example, when police spot nonfunctioning brake or tail lights or hear an overly loud exhaust system.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • Assets are nonoperational, or have been disposed of, and leadership teams just don’t know.
    Rohit Prakash, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • While Russia's surface fleet of ships is less impressive and counts just one currently nonoperational aircraft carrier among its ships, the Kremlin wields a daunting undersea fleet.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In Sudan, 70 percent of health facilities are nonfunctional.
    Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • When heading out to look for lamps, take a lightbulb along to test them in-store, but also consider rewiring nonfunctional pieces.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • But having 10 power play opportunities also made the game somewhat useless.
    Arpon Basu, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • With her charger useless and the screen showing a dangerously low percentage, the reality sank in.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Decommissioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decommissioned. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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