How to Use phaseout in a Sentence

phaseout

1 of 2 noun
  • And who was in on that deal, six years ago, to begin the phaseout?
    Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The Senate bill would give a three-year phaseout of the program.
    Eliza Collins, USA TODAY, 24 June 2017
  • The phaseout will take time, as orcas can live for decades.
    Mike Blake, National Geographic, 4 Jan. 2017
  • The draft does not set out a timeline for the phaseout or the exemption.
    Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
  • There was an income phaseout, of course, but that's not all.
    Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Two years ago, there were fiery debates over a phaseout of coal.
    WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The company expects to complete the phaseout by the end of 2020.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The budget funds the third year of a six-year car tax phaseout that will be completed in 2023.
    Edward Fitzpatrick, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2019
  • That was due in part to an earlier step in the tax credit's year-long phaseout.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2020
  • But Poland is fiercely resisting the calls for a rapid phaseout of coal.
    CNN, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The moves are leading some experts to step up estimates for the phaseout of coal power in the U.S.
    Katherine Blunt, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2019
  • The phaseout had been on track to begin earlier, in 2019.
    New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
  • By 1974, EPA had begun a phaseout of lead from gasoline.
    National Geographic, 10 Dec. 2016
  • That projection was echoed in the coal phaseout signed in Scotland last week.
    Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The income tax phaseout would start in the third year and would be tied to revenue triggers so that the state would be able to balance the budget.
    Christopher Keating, courant.com, 1 July 2018
  • Opposition to the phaseout does not just come from the tech sector.
    Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Climate envoy John Kerry has balked at the idea of committing the U.S. to a coal phaseout.
    Aaron Regunberg, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Plus, the phaseout income limits for contributing to a Roth IRA are bumped up.
    Ashlea Ebeling, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Our columnist Dan Neil explains the real reason for the sedan phaseout.
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • Democrats, who control the House, proposed a slow phaseout of the moratorium.
    Jessie Van Berkel Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The budget provides $64 million to move up the final step in the phaseout of the automobile excise tax to this year, rather than next.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2022
  • Tourneur said, adding that the exemptions will only delay and reduce the scope of the country's plastic phaseout.
    Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Last year, there was a movement by the European Union and others to phase out fossil fuels—to begin the phaseout.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Despite the phaseout of new S-76s, Flint believes the S-76 is a viable platform for another decade.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The income tax phaseout bill passed by the Kentucky House now goes to the state senate for consideration.
    Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Further, the draft agreement doesn’t set a timeframe for the phaseout of coal or end to fossil fuel subsidies.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Those groups have proposed a more gradual phaseout of the natural gas plants.
    Dan Petrella, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2021
  • So in this way, a potential coal phaseout in India would have far-reaching effects.
    Vigya Sharma, Quartz, 27 July 2021
  • Europe will likely order a phaseout of these substances later this year, putting the heat-pump industry in a bind.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2022
  • And that, in turn, will help bring about a shift in capital allocation, and thus, the transition away from—or phaseout of—fossil fuels.
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
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phase out

2 of 2 verb
  • Lead levels in the blood of our children have dropped by 95 percent in this country since the phasing out of leaded gasoline—that was a regulatory mandate.
    Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Over the past year, Meta has moved to phase out the Quest 1 headset.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 6 May 2024
  • In 2022, the council voted to ban new wells and phase out old ones over the next two decades.
    Jim Newton, The Mercury News, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Their use is now mostly phased out in the U.S., but some still remain.
    Joey Cappelletti, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The Trump-era tax cuts will phase out at the end of 2025 unless they are extended.
    Bailey McCann, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Best Buy is planning to phase out the sales of physical discs.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 12 July 2024
  • The move means short-term rentals will effectively be phased out in the next five years.
    Emily Price, PCMAG, 24 June 2024
  • The Marines still use the fighter jet, but it is slowly being phased out and replaced by the F-35.
    Erika I. Ritchie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Next, the state plans to eventually phase out all 126 of its trains that run on diesel.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The deal does not require countries to phase out or phase down the use of fossil fuels.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Members had voted last year to phase out the program by 2025.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The national and local governments have struck a deal with RWE to phase out coal in the state by 2030.
    Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The grant will help the district slowly phase out items with the old imagery, like uniforms and murals.
    Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2022
  • Oceana wants to see the company phase out plastic packaging in its home base, the US.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Yet the day will come when SypherPK will phase out of streaming, Hassan says, maybe in as little as five years.
    Matt Craig, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • It’s being phased out with a more streamlined style that harkens back to a women’s smoking loafers.
    Laura Jackson, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Afterward, Google plans to phase out the use of third-party cookies for all users in the second half of 2024.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2023
  • But Art Modell began to phase out the logo after buying the team in the early 1960s.
    Tim Bielik, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022
  • California is the first state in the nation to phase out such bags, according to The Seattle Times.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Apple was already phasing out the iPhone 12 just as the issue flared up.
    Mark Gurman, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • With the growth in the ad tier, the company repeated its plans to phase out its Basic membership tier in the coming months.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Against this backdrop, calls to phase out the use of coal, gas and oil are growing more urgent than ever before.
    David Gelles, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Australia Australia will phase out gill net fishing in the Great Barrier Reef by 2027.
    Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The state is also requiring that a growing share of truck sales and fleets in the state run on clean fuels, with a goal of phasing out diesel big rigs over the next two decades.
    Paul Berger, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
  • This is all good news for governments that have set aggressive targets to phase out gas car sales by 2035.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2022
  • One of the controversial parts of the plan was phasing out the district’s 120 armed guardian positions.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Ethereum’s plan to phase out mining by this month also likely caused miners to stop buying GPUs.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The state would phase out a different program that provides some state support for districts that have passed bonds.
    Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 9 Feb. 2024
  • In 2022, environmental groups filed a petition with the state requesting that use of the gas be phased out.
    Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • President Biden announced a new goal Friday to phase out the purchasing and use of single-use plastics across the federal government by 2035.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024

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