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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The looming phaseout has caused many uBlock Origin users on Chrome to worry they’ll be forced to install a less effective ad blocker.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 30 May 2024
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phase out

2 of 2 verb
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The gains come after Europe agreed to phase out 90% of Russian oil imports by the end of the year.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 1 June 2022
  • 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
  • John Kasich – have campaigned for years to phase out the state’s income tax.
    Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 26 Apr. 2022
  • 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 European Union announced plans this week to phase out 90% of Russian oil imports by the end of the year.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 2 June 2022
  • The coal-phase out was initially planned for eight years later.
    Time, 24 May 2022
  • 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
  • The department hopes to phase out the material by 2032.
    Anastasia Hufham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 June 2022
  • 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
  • So said Newsom about three bills that should close a major oil field; allow cities to phase out oil and gas drilling; and force fossil fuel firms to plug idle wells.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The school board overseeing Milwaukee schools had previously phased out the use of in-school police, concerned about the over-use of law enforcement in school discipline matters.
    Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2024

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