phasing
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It said growth would increase in the second half due to customer order phasing and as product launches build.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 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
It takes place just days before more than 50 countries meet in Colombia for the first-ever global conference dedicated to phasing out fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
Actions include phasing out the need for petrol and diesel cars by 2030, delivering 18,000 hectares of new woodland annually and increasing peatland restoration.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 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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