How to Use disinvest in a Sentence

disinvest

verb
  • Several companies have disinvested from the country to protest its human rights policies.
  • District 3 has been disinvested for far too long.
    — Charlotte Observer, 13 Aug. 2025
  • That’s true of rural communities that have been disinvested in for a long time.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
  • Students, faculty and others have been calling for the board to disinvest in fossil fuels for years.
    — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Yes, because for one thing, more and more states are disinvesting in higher education at an alarming rate.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 14 Nov. 2018
  • Even if this bill passes, the fiscal pressures that have led states to disinvest from higher education aren’t going to go away.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Mar. 2018
  • So that attitude is emblematic of a community that has been disinvested over a long period of time.
    — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2023
  • The tech industry isn’t the only sector that’s disinvesting in DEI.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 8 Jan. 2024
  • But the alternative is to disinvest or to continue to underinvest.
    — Joshua Fechter, ExpressNews.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • For years, regents have criticized state lawmakers for disinvesting in public universities and forcing the board to raise tuition prices.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Communities like Louisville's West End have watched government institutions disinvest in them for years.
    — Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Fannie Mae has just received a prestigious ranking at a time when companies are disinvesting in diversity and inclusion efforts.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 18 July 2023
  • Crump recognizes the concern, especially in communities that have been disinvested or struggled with rising property taxes.
    — Everett Eaton, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Climate activists say the Indonesian government has moved too slowly to disinvest from fossil fuels and to abandon archaic policies that subsidize dirty sources of energy.
    — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • America had disinvested and none of the would-be replacement powers in the region demonstrated the capacity for stability, control, or governance.
    — Thanassis Cambanis, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2017
  • As Wall Street banks and investors face mounting pressure to disinvest in fossil fuels, the massive private equity industry is taking their place, according to climate activists.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The University of Michigan will disinvest its multibillion-dollar endowment from fossil fuels as part of a push to have a net zero carbon investment portfolio.
    — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2021
  • But instead the administration is disinvesting to such a degree that the only logical outcome will be a decrease in enrollment and a skewing of the participant pool toward costlier, sicker people.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The church’s pensions board voted against the renewal of Shell’s board of director at the oil and gas giant’s latest shareholder meeting in May, but the decision to disinvest marks a change from shareholder activism.
    — Sofia Lotto Persio, Quartz, 23 June 2023
  • In parts of Central West Baltimore around the station, disinvestment is so deep that the area is in the conversation for being the most disinvested in the state — measured in vacancy, poverty and decades of public neglect.
    — Alfred Barry, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Those dynamics that have massively increased female labor-force participation all over the globe coincide exactly with other massive pressures on states at every level—national, local, state level—to disinvest in public care infrastructure.
    — Indigo Olivier, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2022
  • While Japan’s national government tried to ensure that students in the affected area got more resources after the accident, officials in New Orleans disinvested in the public educational system in their city.
    — Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Curt Witynski, the deputy executive director of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, said the state government has continued to disinvest in its communities over the years.
    — Evan Casey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2021
  • In contrast, most top urban mortgage deserts are historically disinvested, predominantly Black cities such as Baltimore, Memphis, and Philadelphia.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025
  • For decades, communities like Corona, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights have been deliberately disinvested in by our city, leaving predominantly immigrant families to survive with little to no opportunities for growth.
    — Donovan Richards, New York Daily News, 12 June 2024

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