How to Use disinvestment in a Sentence

disinvestment

noun

• And then there’s the disinvestment on the north side of that street.
  — Xavier Scott Marshall, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Sep. 2021
• Large swaths of the city still bear the scars of decades of disinvestment and abandonment.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 29 Mar. 2018
• There was a lot of concern when there was some disinvestment in the programming on HBO Max.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2022
• But the city has endured decades of disinvestment and hardship.
  — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2021
• The corridor has seen disinvestment for many, many decades, since well before Amtrak took it over in the 1970s.
  — Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2021
• South Phoenix, which can get up to 13 degrees hotter than other parts of the city, has faced decades of climate disinvestment.
  — Megan Taros, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
• The amount that will be raised through this IPO is small, compared with the overall disinvestment target set by the government.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 30 Sep. 2019
• This year, so far, the government has raised Rs9,330 crore through the disinvestment of public sector units.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2022
• But at his news conference a short time later, Mr. Berman challenged the view that disinvestment was at the root of failures raised in the complaint.
  — Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, 11 June 2018
• The city has also suffered from chronic disinvestment from the state.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 18 June 2018
• But over the past two decades, its leaders have also worked hard to make the neighborhood cleaner and safer in the face of longstanding disinvestment.
  — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
• But the legacy of the old law remained: 15 years of disinvestment in multilingual staff and programs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
• But there are vast distinctions between the two sides, the residue of disinvestment and white flight by families like Johnson’s.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• To some people, this underserved section of the city speaks to decades of civic and economic disinvestment.
  — Anjulie Rao, Chicago Reader, 18 Oct. 2017
• But experts say those figures are not enough to make up for decades of disinvestment and mismanagement across the country.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 2 Sep. 2023
• After forty years of disinvestment in our future, that moment is now.
  — Norman Anderson, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• In some ways, the closure echoes the broader disinvestment that has historically plagued the area.
  — Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 29 May 2024
• But the long history of disinvestment at CUNY started not long after that as the city’s finances spiraled.
  — Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 25 Mar. 2022
• As a result, there was an increasing investment in white spaces and places, and a disinvestment in Black places.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas Morning News, 23 Sep. 2020
• The huge right-of-way reserve the state is holding around Gambell and Ingra is causing blight, urban decay and disinvestment.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2020
• Many of them back the boycott, sanctions and disinvestment campaign against Israel.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 21 July 2018
• The East Side, Riley maintains, has endured decades of disinvestment.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
• The City of Cleveland has done extensive planning for hundreds of acres of land around the right-of-way, much of which is vacant after decades of disinvestment and abandonment.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• But over the years, McCaskill said the park became neglected because of disinvestment.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
• Part of the reason: decades of disinvestment in such systems, said Annelies Goger of the Brookings Institution.
  — Amelia Pak-Harvey, The Indianapolis Star, 17 May 2020
• This dragged on for years, as more and more layoffs and disinvestment by governments in turn kept the economy sluggish and led to weaker prospects for the private sector.
  — Mike Konczal, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2021
• While the downtown corridors of Newark, a poor industrial city burdened by decades of disinvestment, have been on the rebound for years, much of the rest of the city had been largely left behind.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
• Today the city is staring down the same problems as much of Detroit: crime, abandonment, disinvestment.
  — Mark Binelli, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2017
• The team transformed the park from a field unfit for Little Leaguers, across from one of the state’s largest homeless encampments, into what could be a boon for a West Oakland neighborhood that has long suffered from disinvestment.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
• Redlining and disinvestment have created pockets of poverty, and racial and economic segregation touch all aspects of peoples' lives, including their ability to access care for their pets.
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024