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

The department is continuing exchanges between local and international artists and testing neighborhood programming ahead of an official summer 2027 launch. — Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 Sharing patient health records through exchanges has decreased duplicative tests on patients. — Alex Rosenblat — Calmatters, STAT, 15 Oct. 2026 And then really trying to understand the patterns inside these exchanges. — Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026 The use of GDRs offers a template for exchanges across the continent to expand pan-African trade and broaden their investor bases. — semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2026 The second episode will examine her interventions on Scottish independence, feminism, free speech, and gender identity, which place her at the heart of increasingly bitter online exchanges. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026 Get free replacements, exchanges, or returns for store credit with no expiration date after purchase. — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 13 Oct. 2026 One of the sharpest exchanges came during a dispute over Flock Safety surveillance cameras. — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 9 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

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

Verb

Based on my forward estimates, the stock trades at roughly 20 times earnings and 17 times enterprise value to EBITDA.

— Stephanie Link, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026
In China, Lauder trades with 17 prestige brands, spanning skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care, at different price points.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 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

Noun

Across five days, View’s filmmaking presentations and executive discussions offer different perspectives on how those pressures are reshaping production.

— Callum McLennan, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
There are four of us on staff at The Verge actively testing Googlebooks and, frankly, our internal Slack discussions have been mostly filled with collective venting of frustrations, disappointments, and bewilderment.

— Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 9 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

Almost nine months ago, Donut Lab rolled up to CES with the promise of a solid-state battery for electric vehicles free of the usual trade-offs, ready for mass production within a few months, not a few years.

— Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 8 Oct. 2026
For many, being told that life is a series of dark trade-offs in a deadly struggle over finite resources does not sound far-fetched at all.

— Via Haymarket Books, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026