as in discontinuance
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Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 18 Aug. 2024
The port, with the DWP, is aiming to phase out greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2024
Even in Poland, the European Union’s most coal-reliant economy, the government has agreed to a transition with powerful mining unions, albeit a slow move to a total phaseout by 2049.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune Europe, 9 July 2024
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Verb
The lighting gradually ratchets up that oppressive feeling, including the reconstruction of those orange-tinged streetlights that have been phased out in favor of white LEDs.
—Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 18 Aug. 2024
The port, with the DWP, is aiming to phase out greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
Noun
In June 2023, protests in Bavaria forced the German government to water down its phaseout of gas heating systems.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2024
Even in Poland, the European Union’s most coal-reliant economy, the government has agreed to a transition with powerful mining unions, albeit a slow move to a total phaseout by 2049.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune Europe, 9 July 2024
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“Phase out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phase%20out. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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