exchanges 1 of 2

plural of exchange

exchanges

2 of 2

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
Short exchanges go smoother when your tone stays friendly and your requests are easy to follow. Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2026 Over the ensuing weeks, some other top exchanges also tweaked their rules. Max Zahn, ABC News, 7 July 2026 Thieriot said the startup is working with about a dozen commodities firms and oil suppliers, including one major trading house, and is in talks with other exchanges and market makers. Mia Gindis, Fortune, 9 July 2026 SpaceX debuted for trading on the Nasdaq and Nasdaq Texas exchanges on June 12. John Towfighi, CNN Money, 7 July 2026 Commercial aerospace, credit rating agencies, global exchanges and payment networks all exhibit this geometry. Anil Chintapalli, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026 The resulting arguments, trolling and nasty exchanges can signal to the algorithm that the content is engaging, prompting it to show those posts to even more people who are likely to react and further amplify the conversation. Larry Magid, Mercury News, 2 July 2026 Watching for artist-specific fan verification, using official face-value exchanges when available and steering clear of inflated resale listings remain the best defenses against a system still tilted toward bots. Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2026 Anthropic published a report in February claiming other Chinese firms DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax generated 16 million exchanges with Claude through approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts. Harry Booth, Time, 7 July 2026
Verb
The group exchanges little looks. Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Jan. 2026 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 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 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 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 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 Though The Wrong Paris exchanges the City of Lights for the Lone Star State, that doesn't stop Dawn from falling for Trey (Pierson Fodé), The Honeypot bachelor that the other girls are vying for. Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exchanges
Noun
  • This particular model swaps in a very capable Ryzen AI 5 430 processor, which comes from the company's latest wave of CPU releases.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 3 July 2026
  • The first footage from director Fred Cavayé’s new adaptation swaps soaring show tunes for prison cells, sword fights and revolutionary chaos.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • After those conversations, Rubey developed a ritual to bless the sites where people had died from suicide.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • Fear over airstrikes on Iran, which pervaded many conversations with locals during the war, has evaporated.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • Heavier platform trades some mobility for greater sustained firepower.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 July 2026
  • Strip out the one-time items, and the stock trades around 14x this year’s underlying earnings.
    Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 6 July 2026
Noun
  • Crews have been seen unloading equipment from trucks this week — much of it covered or obscured — and barricades have been placed near the perimeter of the arena.
    Meriam Bouarrouj, NBC news, 4 July 2026
  • The burning husks of large trucks transporting fuel and derailed train cars were filmed and photographed by civilians and Ukrainian military drones, highlighting supply chain disruptions.
    Marc Santora, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Noun
  • Harry's decision comes amid ongoing discussions with the royal family to acquire an appropriate level of security for his family, including Meghan Markle and their two children, Princess Lilibet, 5, and Prince Archie, 7.
    Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 5 July 2026
  • More than 70 students heard directly from Holocaust survivors and educators before participating in smaller breakout discussions.
    Eva Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • Another way to say this is that, in place of the extensive self-announcements Plato allows his characters, Rochester substitutes his own summary judgements, his sarcastic imitations.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • Finally, because Helms-Burton gave presidents power to block these suits, the majority concluded that this mechanism substitutes for the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act rather than coexisting with it.
    Manuel A. Gómez, The Conversation, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • But accepting that number for the sake of considering trade-offs is useful.
    Pete Harrison, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2026
  • Ownership means knowing which problems are actually yours to carry, choosing responsibility with clarity, naming the trade-offs and saying when something needs more time, more context or more support.
    Somdutta Singh, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • The other actor whose presence deeply impacted the production, Nolan reports, is Samantha Morton, mesmerizing as Circe, the goddess who changes Odysseus’ men into swine.
    Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • That framing changes the design goal from awareness to state change, helping a user fall asleep faster, calm a stressed nervous system or manage a chronic condition in real time.
    Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026

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“Exchanges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exchanges. Accessed 10 Jul. 2026.

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