demilitarize
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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
It’s what Camden, N.J., did when it famously dissolved its police force and started over to both reform it and demilitarize it.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
The question is, how can antagonistic nations demilitarize safely, without raising the risk of preemptive attacks?
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2022
Ukraine's top priority was to demilitarize the plant and the surrounding area, which has seen increased shelling in recent weeks, to avoid a nuclear accident, he said.
From Reuters ● Sep. 1, 2022
A North Korean soldier escaped across the Korean demilitarized zone on Tuesday night, despite intensified surveillance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
They are manufactured exclusively by the Lockheed Martin and RTX Corp. for the U.S. military and cannot be legally possessed or sold to the public unless demilitarized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026
Israel has also pointed to what it says are “daily” violations along the demilitarized frontier by Syria.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024
As NPR noted, “It’s also a reminder that while the demilitarized zone divides the north and south, it did not sever centuries’ worth of Koreans’ shared family ties and culture.”
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024
It moved to the very edge of the Permian side, as if it was a demilitarized zone, and then stopped and came back the other way.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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
Touting various endorsements, it says González, who was raised by migrant farmworkers in Central Washington, will push for affordable housing, mental health and addiction services, worker protections and demilitarizing the police.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2021
We need to reimagine some of the scenarios into which our law enforcement are being deployed, and we need to talk about demilitarizing local police forces.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2020
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