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disbanded

verb

past tense of disband

as in dissolved

to cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization the university disbanded the committee after the report had been submitted the rock group disbanded upon finishing their farewell tour

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to cause (members of a group) to move widely apart police disbanded the rioters with tear gas

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Recent Examples of disbanded The task force became a magnet of congressional Republican criticism during the Biden investigation and was disbanded in February 2025 by then-Atty. — Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026 By 2002, the group had disbanded, but some of its members founded TOOOL and went on to launch yearly lock-picking competitions. — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026 On immigration, Jackson referenced the fatal ICE shooting in Biddeford, Maine, earlier this year and called for ICE to be disbanded and for funding to be redirected to Customs and Border Protection. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 The city government is also restarting the interagency Security Infrastructure Working Group, which Mamdani said was disbanded in 2024. — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 29 Sep. 2026 Cobain died by suicide on April 5, 1994, and afterwards, Nirvana’s surviving members disbanded. — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2026 The Justice Department, for instance, decimated its elite Public Integrity Section in early 2025 while the FBI disbanded a white-collar fraud and public corruption squad based out of its Washington field office. — Patrick Whittle, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026 The instantly recognizable alt-rock group, whose lead instrumentation included baritone sax and two-string fretless bass, disbanded after the 1999 death of vocalist-bassist Mark Sandman. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2026 Although the group disbanded and reunited on several occasions with different lineups, Anderson was always the frontman. — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2026

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In 1986 the United States unilaterally declared that the trust was dissolved.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
Though the nonprofit has dissolved, Century Walk’s legacy lives on in Naperville with a collection of art pieces that span 53 locations across the city.

— Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026

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