relinquishes

present tense third-person singular of relinquish

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of relinquishes In a street vacation, the city relinquishes the right of way or public service easement to an adjacent property owner or owners. Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for relinquishes
Verb
  • Henry then surrenders his phone, and Tony tosses it into the air for Ziva to blast to pieces.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Student-teacher in Vallivue resigns over online comments Another individual affiliated with a Treasure Valley school district has left their position following online comments regarding Kirk’s death.
    Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The 74-year-old François Bayrou resigns on Tuesday after choosing to gamble his political survival on a confidence vote a day earlier—and losing it by a huge margin.
    Cole Stangler, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The company probably didn't mean to draw attention to the fact that Liquid Glass occasionally renders the boundaries between different parts of a window indistinct, fomenting border disputes.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This deepening also has an index in the formal features of his poetry—the ambiguity of his pronouns, the firm particularity of his register of images—which teeters between the mundane and the epiphanic, and renders this imbalance itself into view.
    Elaine L. Wang September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When in a turn of events, Theo abdicates from his position as Duke of Tintagel, and would therefore be divorcing Nan to be with Lizzie, Nan runs away to protect her baby, who would be the heir of Tintagel.
    Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • By solving MXene’s stability problem and suppressing chloride corrosion, the research delivers a material that balances conductivity, durability, and performance.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The vegan lip treatment delivers intense moisture via a peptide that smoothes and plumps, as well as hyaluronic acid that nurtures dry skin.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The woody-spicy citrus scent for men uses luminous top notes of fresh ginger, bergamot and citrus (lemon petitgrain) to create a powerful sensation of freshness that quickly cedes to deeper, spicy, mineral heart notes, notably that of Timut pepper.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Relinquishes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relinquishes. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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