demitted

past tense of demit

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for demitted
Verb
  • The corporation, which will set out its position on Monday, has also been clear that Davie and Turness resigned and were not fired.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2025
  • London — Two top leaders at the BBC resigned on Sunday amid an escalating scandal over impartiality and bias that plunged Britain’s public broadcaster into one of its biggest crises in recent years.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The Supreme Court also previously denied an appeal filed by Davis in 2020.
    Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • That defeat denied Indianapolis a playoff appearance and infuriated the man in charge of it all.
    James Boyd, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • After their two blockbuster trades on Tuesday, Dallas waived running back Malik Davis.
    Noah Camras, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • DoorDash waived delivery and service fees for up to 300,000 grocery orders.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • After years of friendship, Fergie — as the Duchess of York is popularly known — publicly disowned the billionaire in a 2011 interview.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Unlike formal speeches or parliamentary votes, a podcast answer can be easily downplayed or disowned.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Some Virginia Democrats disavowed the texts, but few if any called on Jones to drop out of the race.
    Kevin Breuninger,Dan Mangan, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2025
  • This week in politics In the hours and days after a Politco exposé revealed the chair and vice chair of the Kansas Young Republicans sent bigoted messages in a group chat with members from three other states, Kansas GOP officials emphatically disavowed the hateful and violent rhetoric.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Though Judge and Simon were legally granted equal custody of their three children upon their split, Judge relinquished custody of Sidney to Simon after their daughter opted to live with him full time.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Georgia Tech led 17-14 before the Wolfpack’s Cody Hardy scored his second touchdown of the first half, and NC State (5-4, 2-3) never relinquished the lead from there.
    Manny Navarro, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Royalist émigrés began to trickle back into the country in 1795, and a number of Jacobins who renounced their earlier radicalism were also reintegrated into civil society.
    Time, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Takaichi has called for a hardline stance towards China and is also in favor of revising Japan’s pacifist constitution, especially Article 9, which renounced Japan’s right to wage war.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The last time this protocol was used was when Edward VIII abdicated in 1936.
    Max Foster, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Traditional media often abdicated those communities.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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“Demitted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demitted. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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