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phase out

VERB
slowly get rid of
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The Dreamliners will help Delta phase out older Boeing 767-400s, which already have premium seats taking up more than a third of their cabins.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

A newer tanker, the KC-46A, is planned to phase out the older models but the transition has not been as fast as expected.

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

The Netherlands and Sweden are planning to build new plants, while Belgium has ditched its nuclear phase out and Italy is also re-considering its stance.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

He added that the Department of Defense and other U.S. agencies have six months to phase out Anthropic’s technology.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

The one that could apparently phase out almost any electromagnetic frequency up to about a hundred thousand megacycles—including sixty-cycle power frequencies—was considered to be a particularly cute item.

From Anything You Can Do! by Garrett, Randall