decommissioned

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decommissioned
Adjective
  • The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed the site was inactive and contained no nuclear material, but Israel said the strike was aimed at preventing future weapons development.
    Amanda Castro Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
  • The state Supreme Court still must approve Spolin’s disbarment, but his license will be inactive in the meantime, barring him from working as a lawyer.
    Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Several broken waste bins were not fixed in a timely manner.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 26 June 2025
  • The problem is worsened by the broken and outmoded state of the Oscars’ Best International Feature category, which lets foreign governments handpick their own submissions and launder their public images.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Several election ballot scanners are currently inoperative at multiple polling locations in Cambria County in Pennsylvania.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Additionally, there was no regulation preventing landings at Congonhas with an inoperative thrust reverser—even on rainy days. CENIPA, as a preventive agency, did not name those responsible.
    Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 23 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • The planning process involved restructuring the company’s advisory board, transitioning longtime employees into nonoperational roles, and building a younger, more collaborative executive committee.
    Ritu Upadhyay, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Each sensor is divided into 16 segments, and a few isolated segments are nonfunctional.
    Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • More than 15 drainage basins in Miami-Dade alone are expected to be essentially nonfunctional with as little as two feet of sea rise.
    Alex Harris, Sun Sentinel, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • The price signals are useless because the government prohibited them from being useful.
    The Editors, National Review, 30 June 2025
  • The devices must also give consumers the option of deactivating such features, unless that action would render the device useless.
    Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2025
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“Decommissioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decommissioned. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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