decommissioned

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decommissioned
Adjective
  • While the TikTok account had been inactive for months, the last posts on the other accounts directly preceded Tinney’s death.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2025
  • The one interesting thing to watch is how well the four teams who got first-round byes perform after being inactive for more than a week.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • Inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi, which is repairing broken pottery with gold, Rochette embraced her physical and emotional scars as essential parts of her story.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • As protesters attempted to stop the congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election, Babbitt was climbing through the broken window of a barricaded door to the Speaker’s Lobby when she was shot.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • While the thrust levers were the final straw, other contributing factors included the lack of regulations prohibiting landings at Congonhas Airport with an inoperative thrust reverser, especially under heavy rain conditions.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • But India, citing national security concerns, has publicly provided little evidence linking the attack to Pakistan, which denies involvement and says that Lashkar-e-Taiba is largely inoperative.
    Zia ur-Rehman, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
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
  • What to Know McIntosh stated that the hotline, maintained by the Department of Defense, had been nonfunctional for over three years without the FAA's knowledge.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
  • In contrast, cones — photoreceptors that handle bright-light and color vision — are either rare or nonfunctional in this species.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Adjective
  • The character who can go through walls is useless, because beyond the walls is nothing but dirt.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 May 2025
  • For one, any melasma treatment is practically useless without them.
    Jenny Berg, Allure, 24 May 2025
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“Decommissioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decommissioned. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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