as in deserted
left unoccupied or unused
a disused warehouse that had become a den for drug dealers
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Recent Examples of disused
The piece is a collection of disused shoemaker boxes, once used by cobblers to keep tools, pressed against each other and stacked up, clambering toward the ceiling.
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Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
The easy route takes visitors along a disused rail line for a gentle jaunt in one of the Pacific Northwest's loveliest regions.
—Stacey Lastoe, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2025
Victoria's body was later found in a disused shed in Brighton inside a shopping bag, the outlet reported.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
This edition’s commissions have taken over some of the town’s most striking and unusual locations, including a church built for the fishing community, a former customs house, a Martello Tower and a disused railway bridge.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
The easy route takes visitors along a disused rail line for a gentle jaunt in one of the Pacific Northwest's loveliest regions.
—Stacey Lastoe, Travel + Leisure, 19 Sep. 2025
Victoria's body was later found in a disused shed in Brighton inside a shopping bag, the outlet reported.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
This edition’s commissions have taken over some of the town’s most striking and unusual locations, including a church built for the fishing community, a former customs house, a Martello Tower and a disused railway bridge.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disused
Adjective
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Displaced families often spend weeks, sometimes months, in makeshift dwellings, including public squares and deserted government buildings, while children lose months or even years of education as schools close or become inaccessible owing to gang activity.—
Edwidge Danticat,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
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When their plane crashes, Linda and Bradley find themselves together on a deserted island.—
Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The abandoned Westminster Mall has turned into a hotspot for vandalism since shuttering in late 2025, according to police who are attempting to raise awareness about the issue.—
Lesley Marin,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Rogers is shopworker Polly Parrish, who gets mistakenly identified as the parent of an abandoned baby.—
Gwen Ihnat,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Dec. 2025
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This stretch of the park, an object of fascination for Urbano, contains an array of a hundred or so different models of public gaslights, now obsolete and semi-derelict.—
Javier Montes,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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Fans of dark storytelling will find cruel necromancers, derelict mansions and strange alchemies in this page-turning epic.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
4 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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His eyes were unblinking and vacant.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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One of the latest battles emerged recently in Imperial County, where a court fight has erupted between the city of Imperial and a developer who wants to build a nearly 1 million-square-foot computer center on vacant land along the city’s border.—
James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026
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Gibney illustrates that state of waiting, of staving off what at that time appears to be the inevitable, with the famous sequence from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, in which Max von Sydow’s medieval knight plays chess with Death on a desolate beach.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Jan. 2026
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Tautly written, this first novel by a former criminal lawyer who spent 17 years in the Arctic is a hard look at the desolate lives of people resigned to life in the bleak far north.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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African investors have stepped up to take up the vacated space but have yet to match the size of funding rounds during those peak years.—
Alexander Onukwue,
semafor.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Assemblymember James Gallagher, R-Yuba City, announced his run for LaMalfa’s vacated seat, with support from LaMalfa’s widow and family.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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