demobbing

present participle of demob, chiefly British

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • And that crackdown is disrupting the global remittance market.
    NPR, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
  • This prevents stray heat from disrupting the atoms’ oscillations.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Venezuelans got accustomed to dismissing it all as noise, just a pretext the dictatorship employed to stamp out civil rights.
    Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Despite mounting criticism and public skepticism, Cheney remained a vocal defender of the war, dismissing opposition as politically motivated.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • A lot of disturbing things happened in The Exorcist — Regan MacNeil's 360 neck turn remains one of the most diabolical things to happen on film — and for its innovations, the 1973 movie scored 10 Oscar nominations.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • With words infallibly falling short, Pritam mingled realism with a fragmentary style of narration that meshes together social encounters, violent episodes, vivid metaphors, disturbing dreams, memories, intimate self-reflections, and introspection on society.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Demobbing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demobbing. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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