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deactivated

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verb

past tense of deactivate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deactivated
Adjective
  • Like Platero, hundreds of residents were outside their homes on Thursday cleaning their entrances, looking for belongings that the flood water may have carried away, or taking out furniture and appliances that have become unusable.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
  • In July the company conducted an internal investigation and uncovered changes made to its menu creator system that rendered all of the menus unusable, the complaint said.
    John Towfighi, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • These latest such initiatives focus on linking cookies to devices and apps, rendering thefts useless.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Elevators stopped working between floors, stoplights stopped working at intersections and life-saving pacemakers were rendered useless.
    Mars King, Twin Cities, 30 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Tap water iontophoresis: One case report described successful treatment with this procedure, which involves a mild electrical current passed through tap water to temporarily shut off sweat glands.
    Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 28 Oct. 2024
  • At times, more renewable energy is generated than the grid can handle, so wind and sometimes solar producers are often paid to shut off production.
    Heather Farmbrough, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Planet Green identified a material weakness in its internal controls over financial reporting due to ineffective review and approval procedures over journal entries and financial statement preparation.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
  • But because of a possible ineffective assistance of counsel issue, Lipps said, the sentencing could not proceed.
    Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 31 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Chandra Wallace:So as companies are starting to implement this and starting to discover maybe how unworkable some of these rules might be, is 90 days enough time to give taxpayers to comment on 600 pages of rules?
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The bread debacle can seem like a straw man designed to make the whole system look pointless and unworkable.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • These aren’t productivity goals but goals to be unproductive.
    Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Political discussions at work can often lead to unproductive outcomes, fostering division and hostility among colleagues.
    Jason Walker, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • David Arquette, cast as good-natured if ineffectual deputy Dewey, met Courteney Cox at the first read.
    Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The Dance was born out of a succession crisis that occurred in the reign of the well-meaning but ineffectual King Viserys I (Paddy Considine), which HOTD’s first season had to devote much screen time to explaining.
    Basma Bedawi, Vulture, 14 June 2024
Adjective
  • But there are productive and nonproductive ways to respond.
    Carlo J.V. Caro, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2017
  • Bring The Office Closer To Them As populations grow, the real challenge of coming to the office is long commute times and the resulting nonproductive cycles.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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“Deactivated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deactivated. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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