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

An amendment to the city’s nutrition center budget, which preserves the program’s daily meal cap at 250 rather than reducing it to 200 as per staff recommendation, sparked the meeting’s sharpest exchanges. —

Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026 Initial public offerings from SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI in the coming months could add close to $4 trillion in market capitalization to US exchanges, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. —

Jeran Wittenstein, Fortune, 7 June 2026 The month begins with Mercury entering sentimental Cancer on June 1, adding a layer of sensitivity, intuition and vulnerability to our exchanges. —

Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026 And Mullin, a 48-year-old former Republican senator from Oklahoma and former mixed martial arts fighter, is also known for fiery exchanges with congressional committees, once challenging a Teamsters leader during a 2023 hearing. —

Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 June 2026 Wasserman’s email exchanges with Maxwell were revealed when some of the Epstein files were released in February. —

Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026 When leveraged traders betting on higher prices are forced out of their positions, exchanges automatically sell their holdings to cover losses. —

Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 4 June 2026 In certain circumstances — most often dealing with cases of infectious diseases such as measles or flu — the exchanges notify public health authorities, like the state health department or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. —

CNN Money, 4 June 2026 The result is more messages and fewer real exchanges, and people turning to AI as their friend and confidant. —

Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026

Verb

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 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 Legislators and lobbyists in suits chat with families while a city councilman exchanges first-name pleasantries with constituents, young and old, in line. —

Robin Roenker, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2025

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The Third Circuit’s ‘swaps-first’ approach to field preemption has filtered down to other federal courts.

— Daniel Wallach, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
The difference is in the relationship — homestays put you alongside a host, while swaps give you the run of someone’s home.

— Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2026