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
  • Third-round draft pick Nick Martin, inactive again Sunday, might get a look going forward.
    The Athletic NFL Staff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • For example, the inactive ingredient might be made in South Korea.
    Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Rinsing rice also helps remove any grit or tiny broken pieces that might have made their way into the package.
    Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Comfort Cubs are created with love to heal a broken heart.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 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
  • Internal displacement, malnutrition, and disease are widespread, with nearly 95 percent of the population forced from their homes and most health facilities damaged or nonfunctional.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • There was one nonfunctional small reach-in refrigerator next to the griddle.
    Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Because social platforms have not trained their detection models on sufficient non-English-language and non-Western data, much of the AI-fakes detection technology is still very shaky, if not useless, in the Global South and across the developing world.
    John Wihbey, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
  • House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) suggested on Friday that returning to Washington would be all but useless.
    Zach LaChance, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Decommissioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decommissioned. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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