How to Use disinvestment in a Sentence

disinvestment

noun

• And then there’s the disinvestment on the north side of that street.
  — Xavier Scott Marshall, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Sep. 2021
• There was a lot of concern when there was some disinvestment in the programming on HBO Max.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2022
• But the city has endured decades of disinvestment and hardship.
  — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2021
• The corridor has seen disinvestment for many, many decades, since well before Amtrak took it over in the 1970s.
  — Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2021
• South Phoenix, which can get up to 13 degrees hotter than other parts of the city, has faced decades of climate disinvestment.
  — Megan Taros, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
• The amount that will be raised through this IPO is small, compared with the overall disinvestment target set by the government.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 30 Sep. 2019
• This year, so far, the government has raised Rs9,330 crore through the disinvestment of public sector units.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2022
• But the legacy of the old law remained: 15 years of disinvestment in multilingual staff and programs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
• But there are vast distinctions between the two sides, the residue of disinvestment and white flight by families like Johnson’s.
  — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• But experts say those figures are not enough to make up for decades of disinvestment and mismanagement across the country.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 2 Sep. 2023
• After forty years of disinvestment in our future, that moment is now.
  — Norman Anderson, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• But the long history of disinvestment at CUNY started not long after that as the city’s finances spiraled.
  — Willy Blackmore, Curbed, 25 Mar. 2022
• As a result, there was an increasing investment in white spaces and places, and a disinvestment in Black places.
  — Mark Lamster, Dallas Morning News, 23 Sep. 2020
• The huge right-of-way reserve the state is holding around Gambell and Ingra is causing blight, urban decay and disinvestment.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2020
• But over the years, McCaskill said the park became neglected because of disinvestment.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
• Part of the reason: decades of disinvestment in such systems, said Annelies Goger of the Brookings Institution.
  — Amelia Pak-Harvey, The Indianapolis Star, 17 May 2020
• This dragged on for years, as more and more layoffs and disinvestment by governments in turn kept the economy sluggish and led to weaker prospects for the private sector.
  — Mike Konczal, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2021
• While the downtown corridors of Newark, a poor industrial city burdened by decades of disinvestment, have been on the rebound for years, much of the rest of the city had been largely left behind.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
• Chronic disinvestment in public goods has stripped all but the wealthiest schools of resources.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 23 July 2021
• But the chronic disinvestment in HUD carries over to its leadership.
  — Morgan Baskin, The New Republic, 14 Dec. 2020
• But some local leaders see Spinks’s firing as a sign of further disinvestment in the newspaper.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
• The uprising that occurred in 1966, in which four people died, was perhaps the ultimate result of years of disinvestment.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
• Monique Scott views the problems the ward faces as connected parts of historic disinvestment that must be addressed together.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
• Several fretted that the new shelter would hurt home values and bring more crime and disinvestment to the Frogtown neighborhood.
  — Shannon Prather, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
• The Covid funds are functioning as a one-time injection to compensate for what has been a trend toward disinvestment in recent years.
  — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
• After decades of disinvestment, our roads, bridges, and water systems are crumbling.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2021
• People who are different are not the reason that our roads are in bad shape after decades of disinvestment or that health-care costs are too high or that teachers are leaving the profession.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 1 May 2022
• After historic protests in 2020 in response to the murder of George Floyd, many schools doubled down on promises to address historic disinvestment in Black students.
  — Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2022
• The unprecedented times also have hit neighborhoods hard and brought a rare opportunity to reverse the decades-old trend of disinvestment on the city’s South and West sides.
  — Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 17 Dec. 2020
• Poverty becomes more pervasive as disinvestment saps the strength of those left behind.
  — Charlie Dent, CNN, 18 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024