decommissioned

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Longer-term solutions for the Hormuz crisis would include even more pipelines, either by reviving decommissioned facilities or adding routes.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Navy decommissioned its last battleship in 1992, after the military recognized that battleships had become sitting ducks, vulnerable to modern military munitions that could pick off the vessel from the sky.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

Navy decommissioned four specialist minesweepers, exposing limited mine-clearing assets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Walker’s work was the only transformed statue out of the nearly dozen decommissioned statues related to the Confederacy featured in the “Monuments” exhibition.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

I dropped my decommissioned backpack on the kitchen table and filled the kettle from the pitcher of filtered water I kept on the counter.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram