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demilitarize

[dee-mil-i-tuh-rahyz] / diˈmɪl ɪ təˌraɪz /
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deactivate
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“President Trump and his team think they can get Hamas to disarm and demilitarize Gaza,” he said in a video.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Morgenthau’s plan to demilitarize and deindustrialize Germany was seized upon by the failing Nazi regime as a propaganda tool, and the Truman administration ultimately rejected it.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026

The move shows a change in tact by Casto, who has previously criticized the role of the military in previous administrations and pledged to "demilitarize citizen security" during her presidential campaign.

From Reuters ● Apr. 3, 2023

The question is, how can antagonistic nations demilitarize safely, without raising the risk of preemptive attacks?

From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2022

Kyiv is seeking international assistance to try and demilitarize the area.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022

Then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in organized a last-ditch gathering of all three leaders at the Korean demilitarized zone in 2019, but it failed to break the deadlock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The Javelin recovered in this case was not demilitarized, prosecutors said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026

That region would reportedly become a demilitarized zone under the plan.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025

Israel has also pointed to what it says are “daily” violations along the demilitarized frontier by Syria.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024

On the morning of March 7, thirty thousand German troops had rolled into the demilitarized Rhineland, in open defiance of both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact to which Germany was a signatory.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

For all the dirt thrown at it, the core idea of demilitarizing the response to many 911 calls has tremendous merit.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2023

He said they should always be "persevering in good even when evil is done to us, breaking the spiral of vengeance, disarming violence, demilitarizing the heart".

From Reuters ● Nov. 5, 2022

Mr. Grossi said he planned to contact both sides soon to propose concrete steps to begin demilitarizing the area.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2022

With Russia giving up its territorial claims in exchange for assurances about demilitarizing the long border between the two countries, their leaders signed a Treaty of Friendship and Alliance in February 1950.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2022

Among Gorbachev’s most trusted confidants, he was a tireless proponent of the “new thinking” that would reform the Soviet Union after years of stagnation, demilitarizing its foreign policy and seeking glasnost, or ­openness, at home.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2017


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