decommissioned

adjective

as in deactivated

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Recent Examples of decommissioned There’s also the Kettle Valley Rail Trail, which runs through the city of Penticton, is a decommissioned railway network that’s been transformed into 410 miles of cycling trails. — Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2026 The teen fell about 40 to 50 feet down the vertical underground structure into what rescue workers determined was an exhaust vent tunnel for a decommissioned Titan Missile Facility, according to a statement from Sable Altura Fire Rescue. — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 10 July 2026 Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine fires a torpedo at the decommissioned USS Juneau in support of a live-fire sinking exercise (SINKEX) as part of Valiant Shield 2026 while underway in the Philippine Sea, June 27, 2026. — Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 By Bay City News A decommissioned riverboat in Vallejo caught fire late Friday night, according to the Vallejo Fire Department. — Bay City News, Mercury News, 20 June 2026 In February, it was reported that the National Park Service will exhibit a decommissioned equestrian monument of a slaveholding signatory of the Declaration of Independence. — Greg Allen, ARTnews.com, 7 June 2026 The project will be sited at the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal, a decommissioned Army Base near the entrance of the Bay Bridge operated by developer Phil Tagami, who has been trying for years to turn it into a marine shipping terminal. — Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026 Across from the decommissioned fort sits the building where the Anacostia Community Museum has resided for four decades. — Camille Borders, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026 In 2024 astronauts onboard the International Space Station had to take shelter after a decommissioned Russian satellite broke into numerous fragments. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 13 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decommissioned
  1. deactivated
  2. inactive
  3. broken
  4. inoperative
  5. nonfunctioning
  6. nonoperational
  7. nonfunctional
  8. useless
Adjective
  • Authorities discovered 113 vials, with some testing positive for deactivated monkeypox virus.
    — Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 3 June 2026
  • Unlike brewer's yeast, which is activated, nutritional yeast is a deactivated or inactive strain of the fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 4 Mar. 2026
Definition of deactivated
Adjective
  • Jacobs was also inactive for two games — Week 12 with a knee injury and Week 18 as a healthy scratch.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • But while such incidents remain extremely rare, there are now more than 18,000 active and inactive satellites in orbit — a number that has more than doubled in the past six years alone.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
Definition of inactive
Adjective
  • There is a shortage of treatment chemicals and equipment, broken pump and, poor-quality filters.
    — Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
  • On June 30, 1929, a young Black girl found McDaniel’s body lying face-down, with a broken neck and bruises.
    — Maveah Griffith, Charlotte Observer, 24 July 2026
Definition of broken
Adjective
  • If the main engines were to become inoperative, six smaller orbit-control thrusters can still be activated on the lunar surface, providing an alternative pathway for a rapid ascent.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 June 2026
  • And there’s been plenty of media focus since then — including on inoperative toilets.
    — Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of inoperative
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
Definition of nonfunctioning
Adjective
  • Kosmos 2553 began to spin out of control in April 2025 and is believed to currently be nonoperational.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 8 July 2026
  • The car was nonoperational and not under his name, but was left in his care.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026
Definition of nonoperational
Adjective
  • Down the road from his house, drivers cautiously approached a nonfunctional traffic light on Hampstead Mexico Road that was impacted by an outage.
    — Gabriella Fine, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2026
  • The Placer County Sheriff’s Office said drivers should treat intersections with nonfunctional traffic signals as a four-way stop.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 20 June 2026
Definition of nonfunctional
Adjective
  • Such collisions could create fields of debris, potentially rendering entire areas of orbit useless.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
  • And yet, Paul can’t help but impose and offend, making even his expertise in home security sickeningly useless.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 22 July 2026
Definition of useless

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