decommissioned

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decommissioned
Adjective
  • But he’s been inactive for much of the last three years.
    Josh Katzowitz, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • While the Kenya Moore Hair Spa website is inactive, as of writing, bookings can still be done on Style Seat, a beauty services website, for multiple services, including silk presses, trims, blow outs, protein treatments, sew ins, quick weaves, take downs, scalp analyses, and wig installations.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Photos taken by the Associated Press on Sunday show broken windows and a damaged door at the front of the residence.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 13 Apr. 2025
  • In Okonkwo’s case, a broken wrist kept the former Arsenal ’keeper out for 11 league games.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • At the same time, Israel has acted to render what is left of Assad’s navy inoperative.
    Bassem Eid, New York Daily News, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Although there several election ballot scanners were inoperative at multiple polling locations in Cambria County in Pennsylvania, no widespread voting problems had been reported by the late afternoon.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Drivers say their contract issues center on pay as well as safety issues, including nonfunctioning heaters, loudspeakers and windshield wipers.
    Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • In 2020, the state of Virginia passed some bills limiting pretextual traffic stops—for example, when police spot nonfunctioning brake or tail lights or hear an overly loud exhaust system.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2023
Adjective
  • While Russia's surface fleet of ships is less impressive and counts just one currently nonoperational aircraft carrier among its ships, the Kremlin wields a daunting undersea fleet.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The planning process involved restructuring the company’s advisory board, transitioning longtime employees into nonoperational roles, and building a younger, more collaborative executive committee.
    Ritu Upadhyay, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The United Nations reports that more than 60 percent of homes have been destroyed and 95 percent of hospitals are nonfunctional.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2025
  • At least as of right now, the Audible app on her phone remains nonfunctional for reasons that are beyond me, but with luck—and a bit of ongoing care and maintenance for the server in the closet where this stuff all lives now—neither of us will ever have to deal with that app again.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • For most of us, our inbox goals are the same: minimize useless spam, file away messages that don’t require your attention right away, and bring urgent items to the forefront.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • His devastating splitter would be useless without first establishing everything else in the strike zone.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
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“Decommissioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decommissioned. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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