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parting (with)

verb

Definition of parting (with)next
present participle of part (with)
as in discarding

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parting (with)
  1. discarding
  2. shedding
  3. deserting
  4. abandoning
  5. forsaking
  6. resigning
  7. renouncing
Verb
  • During the response, drone pilots spotted the man discarding a rifle outside the residence, police said.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
  • That method involves preserving the initial prompt and the last several thousand reasoning tokens, but discarding many of the intermediate reasoning tokens.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of discarding
Verb
  • But now tech giants like Microsoft, Meta and Google are turning to AI for a larger share of the code writing, and big employers like Amazon are shedding workers as spending on AI accelerates.
    — Heather Hollingsworth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The London gallery Ben Elwes Fine Art has been hard at work the past few years shedding light on the career of Alejandro Mario Yllanes, a Bolivian painter who studied under Diego Rivera and whose work has been overlooked until recently.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of shedding
Verb
  • Over the next two decades, records are few, most of them noting criminal convictions for fighting in bars, stealing a watch, deserting a whaling ship, and beating his wife.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
  • But Putin was not going to launch a new war against Turkey’s rebel allies just to save a petty dictator whose own soldiers were deserting.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2026
Definition of deserting
Verb
  • The Detroit man then allegedly tried to flee the scene in a vehicle before abandoning it and fleeing on foot, prosecutors say.
    — Karma Sabbah, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • College football has gone national, abandoning regional affinities and local rivalries.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of abandoning
Verb
  • Supporters of 2022 World Cup champions Argentina were among the most visible in Doha during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, with some saving for four years and forsaking home-buying in order to make the trip.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • If bigger and better opportunities come along, striking while the iron is hot is a logical course of action, even when moves sometimes appear to make more sense for financial reasons than footballing ones and forsaking the comfort of operating in a stable environment.
    — Andy Naylor, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026
Definition of forsaking
Verb
  • The previous investigations were stalled because Haitian judges kept resigning from the case, fearing for their lives, and gangs seized control of the downtown Port-au-Prince courthouse where the judges were interrogating suspects.
    — EVENS SANON, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026
  • In a memorandum sent to school board members Wednesday, Hill claimed board members tried to extort her into resigning.
    — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of resigning
Verb
  • Eric Lai, a senior fellow with the Georgetown Center for Asian Law, said every actor in Hong Kong civil society who assumed that renouncing violence and working within the law would be fine has to revise that assumption.
    — Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • That starts with renouncing the use of military intervention as a first resort and ending the practice of diplomacy by airstrike.
    — MARC LYNCH, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of renouncing
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“Parting (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parting%20%28with%29. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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