dismantlement

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Recent Examples of dismantlement Major decommissioning and dismantlement started in 2022. Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025 Nevertheless, cybercrime should be reported to the FBI for intelligence gathering and to support efforts to disrupt ongoing operations, which can result in website takedowns, disruptions and dismantlement. Austin Berglas, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 Her company used selective demolition and structural dismantlement on the exterior, which focused on preserving any salvageable building materials. Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 10 Aug. 2025 Latest gesture of conciliation The dismantlement of the loudspeakers, which is due to be completed by the end of this week, is the latest conciliatory gesture by the South. Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dismantlement
Noun
  • The success of this eradication program does not happen without the people on the ground.
    Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
  • However, in the 1950s, eradication efforts using sterile male flies and livestock monitoring began to push the fly population southward.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The execution was off, but the call was the right one at the perfect time.
    Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Another canvas which adapts well to nearly any shade thrown its way is the Air Jordan 12, which will soon take on a new white-and-green execution that’s said to be inspired by the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To be fair, the effacement of character is itself one of Leitch’s dramatic points.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
  • There are times in The Years when the betrayal and effacement of May compels Ernaux to say something similar.
    Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Matt Jones and Christina Long discuss whats next for Arkansas football after the Notre Dame slaughter on Saturday.
    Christina Long, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The 1994 slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda became the paradigmatic example, prosecuted at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and recognized by the UN Security Council.
    Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Losing sight of this has meant that faculty haven’t been using all of the tools at their disposal to fight the disintegration of tenure-stream employment.
    Time, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • For director and co-writer Justin Tipping, the key to expressing Cameron’s mental and physical disintegration was finding a visual language that combined two very different worlds.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The university also produced John Morse, a former Colorado senate president who earned national attention for his leadership in passing gun control legislation following the Aurora theater shooting and Sandy Hook massacre.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
  • On the day of the massacre, the shooter opened and walked through the west door with no hindrance, though it had been pulled shut by a teacher.
    Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Issues around social media, respect between political rivals and free speech have been highlighted by the assassination of conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder and CEO Charlie Kirk on September 10.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In the wake of the assassination of prominent conservative figure Charlie Kirk, the rhetoric wars have taken to new levels of vitriol, with many on the right blaming the left writ large for such political violence, and vice versa.
    Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • High seas and rough surf from two hurricanes have been blamed for the collapse of seven houses on North Carolina's Outer Banks.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • After the collapse, the city placed the building on the dangerous buildings list and issued an order that it being repaired or demolished.
    Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Dismantlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismantlement. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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