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adjective

as in unusable

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verb

past tense of deactivate

as in killed

to cause to stop functioning deactivate the machine carefully, or you'll risk an electric shock

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Recent Examples of deactivated

Adjective

Most traditional flu shots use a deactivated version of the virus — often grown in eggs — to teach the immune system how to fight it. — Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2026 In people with the natural mutation, every cell in the body has the deactivated ANGPTL3 gene. — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026 Authorities discovered 113 vials, with some testing positive for deactivated monkeypox virus. — Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 3 June 2026 Unlike brewer's yeast, which is activated, nutritional yeast is a deactivated or inactive strain of the fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae. — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 4 Mar. 2026 While the total number of accounts across platforms is unknown, Inman Grant said the number of deactivated or restricted accounts was encouraging. — Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 16 Jan. 2026 So my mother could wear the transmitter in its deactivated state. — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Aug. 2016

Verb

The next day, journalists found their passes had been deactivated. — Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026 A day later, their reporters who tried to enter the security checkpoint found their hard passes deactivated. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026 Technical standards and checkpoints help ensure AI systems are monitored continuously and can be audited or deactivated when risks emerge. — Jennifer C. Wolfe, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 In 1973, the airfield was officially deactivated before transitioning into its current role as an intelligence center. — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026 Ultimately, instead of reporting the user to RCMP or warning the community, OpenAI simply deactivated the account, which did nothing to prevent Van Rootselaar from making a second account. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026 White House reporters from the two cable networks — Betsy Klein of CNN and Akayla Gardner of MS NOW — both went live to report they’d been turned away, their press badges deactivated, when arriving for their jobs at the White House. — Jocelyn Noveck, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026 Klein reported that a Secret Service agent said her press pass had been deactivated. — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026 Screenshots allegedly from Anya's account, which has since been deactivated, were also shared widely, showing posts that spoke derogatorily about conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. — Finch Walker, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for deactivated

Adjective

Predicted in the 1970s by NASA physicist Donald Kessler, this chain of orbital smashups could make the space around Earth unusable and unsafe.

— Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Shows promise in testing This technology turns unusable, high-arsenic copper into valuable inventory, creating new revenue and cutting operating costs.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of unusable

Verb

Two women, ages 50 and 60, were killed and dozens of other people were wounded in a Russian strike on a market in Lozova, in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, said Oleh Syniehubov, head of the regional military administration.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
Samuels was killed just minutes after posting about Wright's abuse on social media.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of killed

Adjective

Throw in most sideline reporting and coach interviews, completely useless.

— Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Simply put, the satellite connection would allow Russian operators to steer drones and missiles directly, rendering useless the electronic-warfare network Ukraine has built across the country to jam them.

— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of useless

Verb

One in six households can’t afford to reliably put food on their table, and Texans have had their electricity shut off at one of the highest rates in the United States.

— Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
Musk previously ordered SpaceX engineers to shut off Starlink's satellite network over Crimea to thwart a Ukrainian attack on Russian warships, according to a chapter in the 2023 Musk biography written by Walter Isaacson.

— Annie Palmer,Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of shut off

Adjective

Fixing the problem Flexible substrates have uneven surface roughness and varying hydroxyl-group densities, making standard large-area printing techniques ineffective.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
Fette, a freshman seeing his first significant game action, was Arizona State’s third quarterback of the game, replacing an injured Mikey Keene and an ineffective Cutter Boley.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of ineffective

Verb

Raichlen’s career, in a way, is similar in that he’s never been stuck in the lane of writing about barbecuing only brisket and pork.

— Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026
Other franchises have run into the same issues — looking at you, Star Wars — but Halo has been stuck in this purgatory for 15+ years, as Xbox leaders and strategy shifts come and go.

— Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of stuck

Adjective

Russia and Ukraine have been waging a long-range aerial war while their armies remain largely deadlocked on the front line.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2026
Russia and Ukraine have been locked in a long-range aerial war while their armies remain largely deadlocked on the front line.

— Susie Blann, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of deadlocked

Adjective

In other words, Israel is insisting that Hamas meet all its phase two obligations even before Israel has met any of its phase one obligations—a position that renders the plan unworkable.

— KHALED ELGINDY, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026
When aggressive payments lead to falling behind elsewhere A debt payoff plan should be challenging enough to make progress without resulting in the remainder of the monthly budget being unworkable.

— Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of unworkable

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