phasing
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Alison Fure, 68, is petitioning Kingston Council to begin phasing out plastic decorative items, including ornaments, flowers, and windmills, on graves.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
United Parcel Service said it is in the home stretch of a years-long restructuring that includes phasing out roughly half its Amazon business, as well as cutting tens of thousands of delivery-driver and warehouse-worker roles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
He is phasing out 1:1 Chromebooks for elementary students and has decided to block YouTube for the upcoming school year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
More than 50 governments meet in Colombia on Tuesday against the backdrop of the Iran war and a global energy crunch for the first international talks on phasing out planet-heating fossil fuels.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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