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 school once contributed to the eradication of smallpox and the development of the polio vaccine, led breakthroughs linking air pollution to lung and heart disease, and helped demonstrate the harms of trans fats.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The success of this eradication program does not happen without the people on the ground.
    Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And, as shown by the grim pictures of public executions this week, further breakdown in law and order hangs over everything.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Since the state resumed executions last year following an involuntary 13-year pause due to trouble obtaining lethal injection drugs, four inmates have selected lethal injection and two have died by firing squad.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 18 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
  • Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Some will welcome it; there is certainly an argument that the attempts to imitate Guardiola’s style, playing from the back against high-class opponents with a plan to press them into mistakes, led to some coaches leading their teams like lambs to the slaughter.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 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
  • Cell tower data placed his phone inside Israel near Kibbutz Kfar Aza, one of the sites where Hamas and its supporters carried out a brutal massacre.
    Greg Norman , Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Bondi established the task force in February to spearhead the DOJ’s investigations into the perpetrators of the massacre.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The play focuses on the assassination of the title character by a conspiracy headed by Brutus and Cassius and the defeat of the conspirators in battle by Caesar’s successors, the triumvirate of Marc Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In the year before the assassination, Mangione traveled to Asia, climbing a mountain in Japan and drinking with expat Americans in Thailand, according to The New York Times.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Energy revenue is the linchpin of Russia’s economy, allowing Putin to pour money into the armed forces without worsening inflation for everyday people and avoiding a currency collapse.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Second-half collapse The Suns cut the deficit to 12 after outscoring the Kings 16-11 to start the second half.
    Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Dismantlement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismantlement. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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