denuclearize

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Recent Examples of denuclearize Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made clear on Wednesday that Iran is open to assuring that its nuclear enrichment is kept below the levels necessary for weaponization, but would not be willing to denuclearize completely. Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 16 Apr. 2025 However, three years later, Kyiv chose to denuclearize, signing the Budapest Memorandum and transferring the weapons to Russia. Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025 Since 1992, when Seoul and Pyongyang issued an inter-Korean declaration to denuclearize the peninsula, Seoul has pursued that goal in good faith. Robert E. Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 30 Dec. 2024 Nonproliferation advocates hold that nuclear weapons should not spread anywhere, and in many cases argue that all countries that possess these weapons should denuclearize. Robert E. Kelly, Foreign Affairs, 30 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for denuclearize
Recent Examples of Synonyms for denuclearize
demobilize
Verb
  • The order came two weeks after the Marines sent to Los Angeles left and a week after the Trump administration demobilized most of the National Guard.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Colombia’s truth commission says paramilitary groups, which demobilized under deals with Uribe’s government, killed more than 205,000 people, nearly half of the 450,000 deaths recorded during the ongoing civil conflict.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 July 2025

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“Denuclearize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/denuclearize. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.

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