mothball

"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

“It literally goes into mothball mode,” said Len Kientz, Evonik’s director of energy management in North America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was mothball.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

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 Harry S. Truman

And it’s very possible that the fullback position, currently headed to the mothballs, will eventually make a comeback.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2022

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

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

Rowlf the philosophical piano-playing dog, a regular on “The Jimmy Dean Show” in the 1960s, is brought out of mothballs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2021

We're both wearing salwar kameez outfits that smell like mothballs.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

When the Toreros needed cold-weather clothing for a game at Dayton, Harbaugh cajoled the Chargers, where he spent part of his playing career, into donating some of their mothballed gear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Plans were approved, then mothballed, and then resurrected.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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

After the gaffe, Ackman mothballed the IPO entirely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Whether it was staying with the boyfriend of the month, or in a foreclosed home, or luxuriating in a mothballed beach house, I’ve done fine.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Parents celebrated a decision to halt the "mothballing" of any secondary school in the region in 2024.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Ackman set his sights lower this time compared with 2024, when he initially aimed to raise $25 billion, then lowered the target to around $2 billion before mothballing the listing entirely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

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

And it would vindicate the Dodgers’ strategy of all but mothballing an elite starting pitcher for almost three weeks and then handing him the ball and asking him to win them the division series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

But that era ended when Alcoa terminated the Intalco agreement before mothballing the facility in 2020.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022