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"Their temporary closure or mothball can feel like it diminishes a sense of belonging and local pride to a small rural community which has historically had a local school," it added.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

Meanwhile, the metal’s prices could be supported by supply concerns after miner South32 disclosed plans to mothball its smelter in Mozambique, according to the analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

At Pascagoula Hospital, the city’s only acute-care health facility, a wave of departures has left 80 unfilled openings for registered nurses, forcing administrators to mothball a third of its beds.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2022

Also, the shipyard is home to a mothball fleet — many ships on the way to scrapping — which fluctuates in size.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

For example, many combat ships are being returned to active duty from the "mothball fleet" and many others can be put into service on very short notice.

From State of the Union Address by Truman, Harry S.

Growing up, restaurateur Andy Kalish associated two smells with Friday nights: his grandmother's chicken soup and mothballs in his grandfather's closet.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2022

That system is long gone, relegated to the mothballs after the judging scandal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

She also took something else out of the mothballs: the maiden name and hyphen that she’d set aside for simplicity’s sake during the race.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2022

“But honestly, once we were given the green light to come back, we came out of mothballs very quickly ... and then we just drove it to the finish line.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021

Once my nose started clearing up on Day Five, my nausea got even worse, because that odd aroma of old pot roast mixed with mothballs was nobody’s idea of a stomach soother.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick

The approved buyer of the mothballed residential, hotel and retail project is a partnership led by Kali P. Chaudhuri, whose KPC Development Co. owns and builds commercial properties in California and India.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

A few gas flares could be seen flickering from the road, but the country’s energy facilities had essentially been mothballed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

The war could make it easier for Takaichi to reopen mothballed nuclear plants that were supplying 30% of the country’s electricity before the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

Fountainhall Primary was mothballed - shut on a temporary basis - in 2025 but now the local authority is looking to begin the process to close its doors permanently.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026

A boy’s cap hangs on the wall; at the back looms a massive wardrobe, mothballed shirts hung inside.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Goldman Sachs raised its second-quarter Brent crude forecast by $10 to $76 a barrel, as Iraq began mothballing some oil production.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

Critics say this mothballing will amount to a death warrant, and have asked San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors to give the fountain another chance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

Fifteen years ago, former Nebraska and Arizona State quarterback Sam Keller filed a class-action lawsuit that in 2013 resulted in Electronic Arts Sports mothballing its popular “College Football” video game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

But in recent months, Goldman has signaled a partial retreat from those efforts by scrapping plans for a checking account broadly available to the public and mothballing its personal loan business.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

Powys is, as a result, considering closing down buildings for a period of time and mothballing some properties to save on energy costs.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2022