dismounting

present participle of dismount

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of dismounting The new cleat should be particularly appealing to racers – who need to snap back in as quickly as possible after dismounting – and to riders who are intimidated by the learning curve involved in using clipless pedals for the first time. New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dismounting
Verb
  • More than 2,200 elite track and field athletes are descending on Tokyo for the upcoming world championships, but Cooper Lutkenhaus might be the only one to pack homework.
    George Ramsay, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Some lava tubes that wrap across the surface of the Red Planet could make perfect protective shells to position prefabricated human habitats transported aboard the massive Starship capsules that are now counting down to descending on Mars.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Harvard has already begun dismantling its DEI infrastructure.
    Leadership Brainery, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • On the left were environmentalists who wanted to leave carbon in the ground; on the right, MAGA nationalists who were dismantling wind farms and carrying out mass deportations.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There were men sitting at tables in front of what must have been a bar, three little boys who stopped playing on the pebble beach to watch me, two women also disembarking with baskets and packages from their shopping in Como.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The other was a sailor who had fallen between two ships while disembarking one and boarding another.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • My ultra earbuds keeps disconnecting randomly, and also first connection is problematic.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The four-wheel-drive system features a disconnecting rear axle to improve fuel economy.
    Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The center console is optimized for disassembling and dismantling.
    James Morris, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Workers began disassembling the street where the yellow letters were painted a block from the White House after the killing of a Black man by Minnesota police sparked nationwide protests nearly five years ago.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • That means hanging out with old friends less, making more of an effort to meet new ones, letting go of some old hobbies to explore new ones, detaching from my hometown and maybe even getting a new job.
    Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Airport officials voted to begin detaching themselves from Highfill in September 2023, and the sides have been in court and before the Arkansas Legislature multiple times since.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2025

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“Dismounting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismounting. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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