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Recent Examples of severance
Ray Wann, a partner and head of employment at Sheridans law firm who has represented both sides in severance negotiations, says that, based on his experience, clubs that sack a manager towards the end of their contract are more likely to pay out the full amount.
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Tom Burrows, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Some have taken the request by the Trump administration to resign with 8-months severance to heart, preferring that over the possibility of being fired.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Platt’s employment agreement guaranteed severance equal to one year’s salary unless he was dismissed for cause.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
Those won’t really have an impact until those severance checks are done and people actually claim for unemployment.
—Nyse, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
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Tom Burrows, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Some have taken the request by the Trump administration to resign with 8-months severance to heart, preferring that over the possibility of being fired.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Platt’s employment agreement guaranteed severance equal to one year’s salary unless he was dismissed for cause.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
Those won’t really have an impact until those severance checks are done and people actually claim for unemployment.
—Nyse, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for severance
Noun
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Shumpert filed a motion for contempt (obtained by In Touch) on May 5th and accused his ex-wife of violating their divorce agreement.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
9 May 2025
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Fey and her team go to some pains to present both parties in the divorce with some empathy.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
9 May 2025
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In the last three years, Showering has had no shortage of such big moments—the birth of her child, a breakup, the loss of two grandmothers, a move from London to rural Somerset.—
Grace Edquist,
Vogue,
8 May 2025
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Anne, a pet parent living in France, recently went through a breakup, which led to her ex-boyfriend moving out of the apartment.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
Noun
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The dissolution of the PKK raises a host of questions for the Islamist government of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the pro-American Kurdish forces (YPG) in northern Syrian who helped defeat the Islamist State terrorist movement.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
12 May 2025
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More broadly, the dissolution of the foreign aid program is a significant example of a broader trend the administration is pursuing: sacrificing soft power for hard power.—
Time,
Time,
12 May 2025
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However, Hall only appeared in the premiere episode of the show due to his split from Haack.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
4 May 2025
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Huss stars in The Four Seasons as Terry, Anne's new boyfriend following her split from Nick.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
3 May 2025
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The reports included accounts of both Jewish and Muslim students dealing with profound grief over the deaths of loved ones, concerns for their safety and feelings of alienation and academic censorship.—
Jeff Winter,
CNN Money,
2 May 2025
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That sense of alienation, that sense of a slight remove, something bubbling under the surface—that’s as New York a story as glamour or whatever else.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The actress wore a slinky black dress on the red carpet that featured a plunging V-neck line that exposed a hint of cleavage.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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These often reflect deep ethnic and social cleavages, aggravated by external interventions, as well as cruder forms of power struggle.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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James tried to drive but couldn’t create separation as the shot-clock buzzer sounded.—
Jovan Buha,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
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Since 2021, there have been 85 recorded events involving a potentially dangerous near-miss between a helicopter and a plane – defined as a lateral separation of less than 1,500 feet and a vertical separation of less than 200 feet, the National Transportation Safety Board said in March.—
David Shepardson,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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Many rivers have natural bifurcations, where the branch later returns to the main river after some distance, such as a braided river or delta.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Apr. 2025
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The bifurcation between property-haves and property-have nots has substantially worsened since the crisis.—
Sahil Mahtani,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Nov. 2017
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“Severance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severance. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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