Thesaurus results for EXCHANGES

exchanges 1 of 2

noun

plural of exchange

as in swaps

a giving or taking of one thing of value in return for another exchanges of commemorative pins are common among Olympic athletes

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as in conversations

talking or a talk between two or more people we had a brief exchange with the pastor as we passed him on the way out of church

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exchanges

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verb

present tense third-person singular of exchange

as in trades

to give up (something) and take something else in return I'd like to exchange this sweater for one in a larger size

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Recent Examples of exchanges

Noun

One of the sharpest exchanges came during a dispute over Flock Safety surveillance cameras. — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026 The court documents also include screenshots of text message exchanges between Berry and Martinez and an email from their son’s school about his disruptive behavior days after the alleged incident. — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 The company has told investors the market-making entity is profitable when betting on other exchanges. — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Botner's secret affair with Flynn became a central part of his trial, where jurors heard exchanges about killing his wife, including a suggestion to hire someone to do it. — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 There’s a difference in how various countries and cultures tell stories, and through exchanges like this, filmmakers have an opportunity to pick up new approaches. — Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026 The trio spent months together in a house designing algorithms to improve how exchanges support trading. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026 The title of the episode refers to its two pivotal phone exchanges. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026 In the late 1980s, the University of Iowa began operating real-money futures exchanges to forecast presidential elections. — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Verb

Consistency turns individual relationships into a community that exchanges honest advice, surfaces opportunities and helps its members navigate growth. — C200, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 Thomas regularly exchanges texts and Instagram messages with Alex’s mother, Leah, in Perth, while enjoying the company of his father, Damien, a former Australian rules football player, when the Condons travel stateside. — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026 To address the challenge, the team designed a swap gate based purely on geometric phases, that exchanges the quantum state of two qubits. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 Apr. 2026 Dorian Gray, the Victorian era’s proto-Clavicular, literally exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty—a move that the looksmaxxing community would seem to endorse wholeheartedly. — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2026 The group exchanges little looks. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026 Bessent insists the rescue isn’t a bailout because under the currency swap agreement Argentina exchanges pesos for dollars. — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025 Miami field goal After each team exchanges punts, Miami’s Carter Davis kicks a 41-yard field goal to get UM back within four of Louisville. — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025 Tole works for a company that exchanges commercial frying oil and was parked in a loading dock area of a hotel. — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for exchanges

Noun

Multiple responses accuse the CFTC of not understanding basic parts of the Commodity Exchange Act, the law that gives the agency its authority over swaps.

— Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 8 Oct. 2026
That court classified Kalshi’s sports prediction contracts as swaps rather than bets governed by state gambling laws.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of swaps

Noun

Meta also says Muse conversations and data inside its virtual machine do not get shared with Meta's advertising systems.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Mercury in Scorpio squares Mars in Leo, making opinions stronger, reactions quicker, and certain conversations easier to escalate than intended.

— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of conversations

Verb

The tech giant vowed to publish its energy and water use annually, and spend more than $1 billion over five years on free community college, trades training, and home energy-efficiency upgrades in data center counties.

— Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Bernstein reiterated its Buy rating and $700 price target and even Morgan Stanley’s reduced $563 target sits about 10% above where the stock trades today.

— Tony Zhang, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of trades

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology found that the approach could significantly improve battery life in high-voltage vehicles, including electric trucks and long-range passenger cars.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
To get gear in, FORM staffers typically meet the artist’s semis at the nearest major road juncture and load equipment into box trucks.

— Katie Bain, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of trucks

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However, during the discussions, Coral Gables Finance Director Diana Gomez pinpointed some possible projects the city could decrease funding for in order to accommodate the Underline funding.

— Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
In 2024, Projeto Paradiso was also one of the driving forces behind a new partnership with the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), which led to the creation of HBF+Brazil following initial discussions at Encontro de Ideias.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of discussions

Verb

This approach substitutes information for sensation, and reduces both human and supra-human experiences to the level of data.

— Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
So Tuchel, who always substitutes his wingers after roughly an hour, decided to withdraw Gordon and bring on an extra defender, Ezri Konsa.

— Michael Cox, New York Times, 16 July 2026

Definition of substitutes

Noun

As federal investigators try to determine the cause of the crash, island residents are mourning the dead and confronting the trade-offs of life so isolated from the rest of Southern California.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Make sure the decisions involving unusual risk, sensitive customers or significant trade-offs remain human responsibilities.

— Michael Goshka, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of trade-offs

Verb

This changes the alignment of the two ferromagnetic layers, which alters how easily electrons can tunnel through the insulating barrier (a quantum phenomenon known as tunnel magnetoresistance) and changes the sensor’s electrical resistance.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026
Until… One big moment changes everything when a glitch occurs and the model agent solves a problem by lying about it, creating a scenario that is not true.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026