disbanded; disbanding; disbands
: to break up the organization of : dissolve
: to break up as an organization : disperse
Examples of disband in a Sentence
They've decided to disband the club.
The members of the organization have decided to disband.
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The result is not only the loss of valuable research but also a profound disruption to the scientific enterprise itself—students without funding, labs disbanded, data lost.
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John Drake, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
The latest effort to close the camp came as cities across the Bay Area, including Oakland and San Jose, have ramped up sweeps following a U.S. Supreme Court decision last summer giving local governments broader authority to disband camps even when shelter beds aren’t available.
—Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
Kurdish fighters in Syria have ties to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which on May 12 agreed to disband and lay down its weapons after a four-decade insurgency against Turkey.
—Andrew Wilks, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
The result is shrinking yakuza groups that nowadays largely make headlines for disbanding, pursuing new law-abiding lives, or promising to behave.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 May 2025
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John Drake, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
The latest effort to close the camp came as cities across the Bay Area, including Oakland and San Jose, have ramped up sweeps following a U.S. Supreme Court decision last summer giving local governments broader authority to disband camps even when shelter beds aren’t available.
—Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
Kurdish fighters in Syria have ties to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which on May 12 agreed to disband and lay down its weapons after a four-decade insurgency against Turkey.
—Andrew Wilks, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
The result is shrinking yakuza groups that nowadays largely make headlines for disbanding, pursuing new law-abiding lives, or promising to behave.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 19 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for disband
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“Disband.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disband. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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