phase out
Britishverb
noun
Example Sentences
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The Defense Department has said two-thirds of the operations that were using Claude are using other AI models and that it wants to phase out Anthropic’s technology over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Last April, the FDA announced that it would phase out petroleum-based synthetic dyes by the end of 2026.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
They have a word for it in German – kohleausstieg, which means "coal phase out".
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
But with a forceful push from then-UC President Janet Napolitano, regents who had been reluctant to remove the SAT switched gears to unanimously vote to phase out testing and explore creating a UC-specific exam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
The one that could apparently phase out any electromagnetic frequency up to about a hundred thousand megacycles—including sixty-cycle power frequencies—was considered a particularly cute item.
From Anything You Can Do ... by Garrett, Randall
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