decarbonize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere by the activities of (a household, industry, country, etc.).
Our expertise is in designing new ways to decarbonize our economy, using solar energy and renewable carbon to replace fossil fuels.
verb (used without object)
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Present
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decarbonizesimple
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decarbonizessimple
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have decarbonizedperfect
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has decarbonizedperfect
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am decarbonizingprogressive
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are decarbonizingprogressive
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is decarbonizingprogressive
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have been decarbonizingperfect progressive
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has been decarbonizingperfect progressive
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decarbonizedsimple
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had decarbonizedperfect
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was decarbonizingprogressive
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were decarbonizingprogressive
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had been decarbonizingperfect progressive
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Origin of decarbonize
Example Sentences
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Clean hydrogen, a fuel that was expected to become a big part of America’s push to decarbonize, appears to be dead for now.
From Barron's ● Dec. 10, 2025
The plan to decarbonize the shipping industry had been in the works for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
“But there’s a good chance that by then, demand for gas in South Korea will have fallen alongside the broader push to decarbonize, which will lead to oversupply and depressed prices,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
Vehicles fueled by diesel lead to substantial carbon emissions that are challenging to decarbonize.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024
The lungs will not decarbonize and purify the blood with foul air, that has been breathed over and over and lost its oxygen.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various
Nordhaus said if the rate at which the economy has decarbonized since 1970 continues, the world will hit net zero by 2080.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
For the sake of a decarbonized society, I totally agree that we need more electronic vehicles and we need to produce them more, and that gasoline should be abandoned as fast as possible.
From Salon ● May 3, 2024
Plastics, ubiquitous in the modern world, cannot be decarbonized because they are made of carbon-based molecules.
From Science Daily ● May 1, 2024
Reducing a cruise ship’s greenhouse gas emissions is a herculean undertaking, among the toughest nuts to crack in the quest for a decarbonized economy.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
Annealed steel is steel which has been soft 26ened without being decarbonized.
From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by Luff, John N.
GE Vernova is also investing an “immense amount” of capital into decarbonizing gas by capturing carbon emitted from gas production and injecting it back into cavities in the ground, Strazik said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
The firm now owns Westinghouse in its global transition fund, which focuses on decarbonizing heavy industry and developing sources of clean energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
At the federal level, the Biden administration opened up a variety of funding streams for alternative protein companies through the Department of Energy, with the goal of decarbonizing the agricultural industry.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2025
“We can do both. We must do both. The $500 million that we’re celebrating today, that’s why it’s such a big deal. It’s going to make an extraordinary impact on decarbonizing the heavy-duty sectors.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2024
This valve is fitted with a pressure gauge, rubber hose, decarbonizing torch with shut off and flexible tube for insertion into the chamber from which the carbon is to be removed.
From Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Manly, Harold P. (Harold Phillips)
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