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sunsetting

British  
/ ˈsʌnˌsɛtɪŋ /

noun

  1. the act or an instance of applying a sunset clause

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The company also said users would no longer be able to record meetings with the Limitless Desktop app or Limitless Web app, and that it was sunsetting its Rewind app.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 5, 2025

"We are also sunsetting games and moving away from development of future licensed IP that we do not believe will be successful in our changing industry," he wrote.

From BBC Feb. 29, 2024

And now, as we had planned from the start, we’re sunsetting it.

From Slate Dec. 22, 2023

The 11-year member of the House of Representatives said she had been particularly concerned about the sunsetting of a federal program that helped the city pay to shelter homeless people in hotels.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 9, 2022

After this the King encamped between the two branches of the Nile, that which flows by Damietta and that which is the next to it toward the sunsetting.

From Heroes Every Child Should Know by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

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