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
  • Large swaths of the city still bear the scars of decades of disinvestment and abandonment.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 29 Mar. 2018
  • But the city has endured decades of disinvestment and hardship.
    — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2021
  • After forty years of disinvestment in our future, that moment is now.
    — Norman Anderson, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • Heisler cites years of disinvestment in the city's fleet, resulting in more than one-third of the plow trucks breaking down.
    — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The city has also suffered from chronic disinvestment from the state.
    — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 18 June 2018
  • For years, the building sat empty, a symbol of disinvestment.
    — April Quevedo, jsonline.com, 23 Aug. 2025
  • It is viewed as visible progress in a district that has long faced both investment and disinvestment.
    — J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Because disinvestment has occurred both in rural places and in inner cities.
    — Rebecca Traister, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Many forces conspired to push up prices, but disinvestment in public universities wasn’t one of them.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 21 June 2026
  • After decades of disinvestment, our roads, bridges, and water systems are crumbling.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Chronic disinvestment in public goods has stripped all but the wealthiest schools of resources.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 23 July 2021
  • 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
  • To some people, this underserved section of the city speaks to decades of civic and economic disinvestment.
    — Anjulie Rao, Chicago Reader, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Eight decades later, the legacy of disinvestment is still visible.
    — Darvio Morrow, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Many of them back the boycott, sanctions and disinvestment campaign against Israel.
    — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 21 July 2018
  • In some ways, the closure echoes the broader disinvestment that has historically plagued the area.
    — Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 29 May 2024
  • Working through a program designed to fill in the gaps of neighborhoods with historic disinvestment.
    — Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But over the past two decades, its leaders have also worked hard to make the neighborhood cleaner and safer in the face of longstanding disinvestment.
    — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Up north, a city like Gary, long plagued by blight, crime and economic disinvestment, doesn't have time for partisanship.
    — Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 25 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • That requires a true disinvestment from the status quo and a belief in an alternative, whatever that may be.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 6 June 2019
  • But some local leaders see Spinks’s firing as a sign of further disinvestment in the newspaper.
    — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Speculation about a disinvestment has been circulating on and off for years.
    — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 11 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Kidd recounted the long history of disinvestment in the West End.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2026
  • South Dallas is still dealing with the impacts of harmful policies and historic disinvestment.
    — Aria Jones, Dallas Morning News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • 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

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