dismission

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Noun
  • The write-off trap There’s a specific kind of institutional damage that happens when hiring managers and leaders respond to the stare with dismissal rather than diagnosis.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel is speaking out as a wide-ranging review of the football program unfolds after Sherrone Moore's dismissal.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The government actually deported more than six hundred and seventy-five thousand people, but getting just to that number involved broad and violent sweeps and the expulsion of people who were in the country legally, actions that led to widespread protests.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Their film, created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective during oppressive times, aims to challenge the ongoing expulsion and propose a vision of equality.
    Brande Victorian, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Red Sox have issued eight fewer challenges than any other team, but Alex Cora, who was fired on Saturday, said before his firing that he wasn’t bothered by the low rates.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • According to the space startup, this included a record-breaking 300-second burn—the longest duration hot firing of any RDRE engine yet.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • According to Farmington Police, officers responded to a medical call resulting from discharge of a firearm in the parking lot of 1 Forest Park Drive Tuesday.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, was also charged with transportation of a firearm and ammunition through interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, as well as discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Dismission.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismission. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.

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