as in to disassemble
to take apart
dismantle the table for easier transport
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Recent Examples of dismantle
Stellantis’ changes also come as the new Trump administration begins dismantling the Biden administration’s electric vehicle and tailpipe emissions policies.
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Umar Shakir, The Verge, 24 Jan. 2025
The objective is not only to dismantle prior ACA expansions but to also introduce a system that significantly alters the health care landscape.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
But somehow this stock hangs in even as the president dismantles pretty much everything that has anything to do with renewables.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
In an executive order Tuesday night, Trump dismantled the decades-old requirements that federal contractors practice affirmative action by trying to employ more women and people of color.
—Vox Staff, Vox, 23 Jan. 2025
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Umar Shakir, The Verge, 24 Jan. 2025
The objective is not only to dismantle prior ACA expansions but to also introduce a system that significantly alters the health care landscape.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
But somehow this stock hangs in even as the president dismantles pretty much everything that has anything to do with renewables.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2025
In an executive order Tuesday night, Trump dismantled the decades-old requirements that federal contractors practice affirmative action by trying to employ more women and people of color.
—Vox Staff, Vox, 23 Jan. 2025
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Hudson was a prodigy who once disassembled his father’s old pump organ and rebuilt it.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
21 Jan. 2025
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The great organ's 8,000 pipes, which were covered in toxic dust after the fire and have been disassembled, cleaned and retuned, will also play a psalm as the doors re-open.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
3 Dec. 2024
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The pods can also be detached from the ring and attached directly together to form a train.—
Kimberley Snaith,
Space.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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This imbalance often leaves one partner feeling overburdened while the other becomes more passive or detached from the emotional weight of the relationship.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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Over time, this disconnect leads to emotional isolation.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
25 Jan. 2025
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That disconnect centers at least in part on contract negotiations, as the Heat have not offered Butler a long-term contract extension at the money that Butler would find acceptable.—
Sam Vecenie,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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Walshe, 49, of Cohasset, is accused of murdering his wife Ana Walshe, dismembering her body on New Years 2023 and hiding it in dumpsters around Greater Boston.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
9 Jan. 2025
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The two-stage success in selling the company’s Australian coal assets will raise $4.9 billion for Anglo American which is surgically dismembering itself rather than accept a merger proposal from the world’s biggest mining company, BHP.—
Tim Treadgold,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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The suspect fled and then struck another pedestrian, who survived, police said.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
27 Jan. 2025
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These presidential powers strike at the very heart of our government — they are more typically exercised by a king or a dictator.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Jan. 2025
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Considered one of the best bull riders of all time, Lane Frost was tragically killed in 1989 at the age of 25 after dismounting a bull at Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes,
11 Dec. 2024
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The initial assaults over the weekend involved dismounted infantry walking in neat lines across snowy fields without much apparent support from artillery or aircraft.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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The galleries are categorized according to three themes — religion, kingship, and society — and divided into historical eras: Predynastic, the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, the Late Kingdom, Ptolemaic (Greek) Egypt, and the Roman period.—
Kate McMahon,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Jan. 2025
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Americans largely support Trump's mass deportation plans, but are divided on how they should be carried out.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Dismantle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismantle. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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