1
as in exits
to leave a place often for another
I'll sing one more song before I depart
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2
as in dies
to stop living
a special tribute for those members of the motion picture academy who have departed over the past year
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Recent Examples of departs
Shortly after the yacht departs, Lo, who is staying in cabin 8, enters cabin 10, which is directly next to hers.
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Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Oversize bags must still be checked in before a flight departs.
—News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
The Grand Canyon Railway departs from Williams in the morning and returns in the afternoon after three hours in the Grand Canyon South Rim.
—Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The peak of the autumn colors arrives and departs rather quickly, and the exact timing depends on a number of factors.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2025
Many companies falter after a great early leader departs.
—Zeynep Ton, Harvard Business Review, 26 Sep. 2025
The team departs Thursday night, lands Friday and plans to practice that afternoon.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
The tour departs from Rogers Landing park in Newberg.
—Ben Davidson Correspondent, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
The less steamy weather is expected to continue into Thursday after the storm departs.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Oversize bags must still be checked in before a flight departs.
—News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
The Grand Canyon Railway departs from Williams in the morning and returns in the afternoon after three hours in the Grand Canyon South Rim.
—Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The peak of the autumn colors arrives and departs rather quickly, and the exact timing depends on a number of factors.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2025
Many companies falter after a great early leader departs.
—Zeynep Ton, Harvard Business Review, 26 Sep. 2025
The team departs Thursday night, lands Friday and plans to practice that afternoon.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
The tour departs from Rogers Landing park in Newberg.
—Ben Davidson Correspondent, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
The less steamy weather is expected to continue into Thursday after the storm departs.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for departs
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Rhincodon typus, to use their scientific name, eat their ample fill by ram filter-feeding, vacuuming up gallons of water to strain out small prey before the water exits their gills.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Oct. 2025
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The secondary rainbow is caused by a second reflection inside the droplet, and this ‘re-reflected’ light exits the drop at a different angle—50 degrees instead of 42 degrees for the red primary bow.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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The latest installment, which premiered Thursday on Netflix, picks up just moments after the Season 2 cliffhanger when the President dies after Hal (Rufus Sewell) informs him of Vice President Grace Penn’s involvement in the bombing of a British aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
18 Oct. 2025
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There’s also the risk of secondary toxicity if a mole comes to the surface, dies, and is eaten by a raptor or other predator.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
17 Oct. 2025
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The country’s instant payments system, Pix, introduced by the central bank in 2020, now moves more money than credit and debit cards combined.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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Those rulings will shape whether the prosecution moves toward trial or stalls amid continuing questions about politics, process, and prosecutorial independence.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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When fear takes over, the price often falls well below its value.—
Steve Booren,
Denver Post,
19 Oct. 2025
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The movement of aid has increased through Israel’s border, but on a scale that Palestinians say falls short of the needs of a destitute populace.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
19 Oct. 2025
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After Lazio at the weekend, the algorithm gets kinder.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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The likelihood of lightning increases as a thunderstorm gets closer and reaches its highest point when the storm is directly overhead.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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Factory ships deplete fisheries in a matter of years and an inordinate amount of sea life also perishes in their nets.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
12 Aug. 2025
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The story goes that at the homecoming pep rally in 1995, then-student body president Michael Torregrossa was pushed into the pond by other student government members.—
Jordy Fee-Platt,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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These spots are all gone, but now, due in part to the rise of #BookTok, where genre fiction often goes viral, booksellers are once again getting more targeted in their approach.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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White disappears completely into the role without skirting parody, portraying the exhausted hitmaker as startled by his own numbness, blanked out and unsure of what to do next.—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
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That Makima disappears for most of the remaining drama and chaos reiterates the film’s episodic quality.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Departs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/departs. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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