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

Xi also announced that China will invite 100,000 American youth to come to his country for studies and exchanges in the next five years and that China will send two pandas to the zoo in Atlanta. — Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026 Five French labels, including Baziszt, Coltesse, Egonlab, Ludovic de Saint Sernin and Mii Collection, will participate in exhibitions, market visits, and exchanges to help the brands better understand China’s retail and consumer ecosystem. — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026 But Friedlich falters at making those exchanges spark with a sense of the real. — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026 And Rovell quickly discovered Kobe’s mind was incapable of idling, even during dead-of-night text exchanges. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026 Netizens posted their exchanges with it, awed by its philosophical depth. — Afra Wang, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026 Oman has long played a quiet role in US-Iran diplomacy, while Qatar has facilitated backchannel negotiations and prisoner exchanges. — Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026 About 760,000 enrollees will be kicked off the Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges as part of a review by federal health officials and Vice President JD Vance's anti-fraud task force. — Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026 Those broader credits were extended but later expired at the end of 2025, raising premiums for many covered by ACA exchanges. — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 22 Sep. 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

The company also separately filed its own civil suit against James and the New York State Gaming Commission, arguing that states do not have the power to regulate swaps, which prediction markets view their event contracts as.

— Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026
The Lakers sent two unprotected first-round picks and two first-round pick swaps to the Jazz for Kessler and then signed him to a four-year, $130-million contract.

— Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of swaps

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My good friends Jim Fourmont of the Lamplighters and Bill Miller, who has been a Lamplighter and a Harmonizer, agreed wholeheartedly in my recent conversations with them.

— Tom Strong, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
My conversations and research left me much less shocked at that statistic that had sent chills down my spine a few weeks prior.

— Luba Kassova, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of conversations

Verb

Hurricanes quarterback Darian Mensah stays in town, trades uniforms, and transmogrifies into the Dolphins franchise QB and savior in 2027.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
This toaster trades your MacKenzie-Childs classic black-and-white check print for a bold red-and-white pattern in the brand’s signature brushstroke style.

— Sarah Scott, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of trades

Noun

Ford, meanwhile, has struggled with production of its crucial F-Series pickup trucks following two supplier fires last year that disrupted production and sales.

— Michael Wayland, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026
Trump has faced intensifying calls from within his own party to do something to slash sky-high prices for diesel, the workhorse fuel that powers trains, trucks, tractors and construction vehicles.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of trucks

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The lack of a real-time conversation means many patients aren’t getting the type of care recommended by medical societies that prescribe GLP-1s, including discussions about weight-loss goals, past efforts and eating disorders.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
But after that, with projections showing OCPS losing thousands more students over the next five years, closure discussions seem inevitable.

— Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 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

The answers combine information with judgment about goals, risks, trade-offs and personal circumstances.

— Leo S. Lo, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026
The refusal of too many politicians in both parties to make difficult trade-offs, instead choosing to say yes to almost everything, has put the country on its current path toward looming fiscal crises in the 2030s.

— Editorial Board, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of trade-offs

Verb

Intuiting chaos, Aesha immediately changes into her wets to help.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
When a full-body scan might make sense The calculation changes for people with symptoms or specific high-risk factors, such as a strong family history of certain cancers.

— Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026