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as in to descend
to come down from something (as a vehicle)
before you disembark, make sure you haven't left anything on your seat
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Recent Examples of disembark
The company disembarked from their landing craft at around 7 a.m.
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Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
Photo by Ole Dor/Shutterstock In late January, Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, signed a decree prohibiting large cruise ships with more than 900 passengers from disembarking at the nearby port of Villefranche-sur-Mer.
—Jessica Benavides Canepa, AFAR Media, 17 Apr. 2025
Astronaut Sunita Williams smiles after disembarking the Dragon capsule after a safe splashdown back to Earth, near Tallahassee, Fla., on Tuesday.
—NBC News, 19 Mar. 2025
After disembarking at the Powell Street Station, riders can transfer to the Muni T Third trains at Union Square Station.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2025
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Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
Photo by Ole Dor/Shutterstock In late January, Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, signed a decree prohibiting large cruise ships with more than 900 passengers from disembarking at the nearby port of Villefranche-sur-Mer.
—Jessica Benavides Canepa, AFAR Media, 17 Apr. 2025
Astronaut Sunita Williams smiles after disembarking the Dragon capsule after a safe splashdown back to Earth, near Tallahassee, Fla., on Tuesday.
—NBC News, 19 Mar. 2025
After disembarking at the Powell Street Station, riders can transfer to the Muni T Third trains at Union Square Station.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disembark
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The company landed $23 million in seed funding from MassMutual Ventures that will allow DePoly to finish and open a 500-metric-ton-per-year recycling showcase plant in Monthey, Switzerland this summer.—
Jennifer Bringle,
Sourcing Journal,
5 May 2025
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If the House settlement is approved, some D-I athletes will also land shares of average power conference athletic media, ticket and sponsorship revenue.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
5 May 2025
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That the posing and posturing for the public continued even as the Pentagon descended into turmoil over his rocky leadership seemed to say something, too.—
Jonathan Swan,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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The hospital’s staff had braced for an onslaught of wounded after learning of the disaster, an army of ambulances having descended on the farm to the southwest of the city center where the plane’s carcass lay burning.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Apr. 2025
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About 100 passengers were forced to debark and leave the train on foot when one Green Line trolley apparently rolled backward into another around 7:30 p.m.—
Matthew Medsger,
Boston Herald,
13 Mar. 2025
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Two massive tree trunks, debarked and smoothly polished, bring more of the outdoors feeling inside.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
21 Feb. 2024
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Fixed an issue where Yasuke could block with his teppo after being dismounted instead of his melee weapon.—
Oliver Brandt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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Microchip claims that the new design is optimal for aerospace and defense mission-critical applications such as mobile radar, dismounted radios, dismounted IED jamming systems, autonomous sensor networks, and unmanned vehicles due to its compact size, low power consumption, and high precision.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Disembark.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembark. Accessed 10 May. 2025.
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