demitting

verb

present participle of demit
as in waiving

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demitting
  1. waiving
  2. denying
  3. disowning
  4. resigning
  5. disclaiming
  6. disavowing
  7. relinquishing
  8. renouncing
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  • Republicans and Democrats have also objected to the deal and Trump’s wider effort to court Russian President Vladimir Putin, including waiving other sanctions on Russian energy that lawmakers overwhelmingly passed last month.
    — Washington Post, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Its $15,000 balance threshold for waiving the monthly fee is lower than Chase Platinum's standard business-balance requirement.
    — Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of waiving
Verb
  • Her husband, Conor, has gone on the record denying any involvement in her death.
    — Kelsie Cairns , Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The latter predicts a single universe by denying the universal validity of Schrödinger’s equation.
    — Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of denying
Verb
  • Hong Kong's stablecoin licensing further illustrates this, approving only HKD tokens while publicly disowning any CNH stablecoin claims.
    — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The platforms that helped usher in the generative AI boom are now trying to clean up the mess without disowning the technology behind it.
    — Angela Yang, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of disowning
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  • David Robinson, who led the writing of OpenAI’s safety reports before resigning, cited the Hugging Face incident as one sign of a broader problem.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The 1989 Charlotte federal trial was pure spectacle Two years after resigning, Bakker was convicted in Charlotte on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of resigning
Verb
  • The method used by players’ associations to litigate against leagues who lock out players is decertification, or the similar step of disclaiming interest.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 July 2026
  • All three opening bids in the 2028 ideas primary lead by disclaiming any desire to raise taxes on the middle class.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2026
Definition of disclaiming
Verb
  • Vance left a positive impression on his RJC audience while stopping short of disavowing influential conservative podcast host Tucker Carlson.
    — Thomas Beaumont, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Savoray returned the next morning with printouts of news articles showing that Netanyahu was disavowing him.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of disavowing
Verb
  • With all the characters in the show, there’s an exploration of losing control, taking control and relinquishing control, and Chris experiences all of those.
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
  • One panel was falling, then smashing on the path, lead relinquishing its long grip on the glass.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of relinquishing
Verb
  • Although economic espionage is not without risk, unilaterally renouncing the practice in the current global environment is far more dangerous.
    — DAVID S. COHEN, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Eric Lai, a senior fellow with the Georgetown Center for Asian Law, said every actor in Hong Kong civil society who assumed that renouncing violence and working within the law would be fine has to revise that assumption.
    — Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of renouncing
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