resignation

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Recent Examples of resignation The deadline for federal workers to resign and take the White House up on its deferred resignation offer has reportedly been delayed again, pending the decision of a federal judge in Boston. Emily Peck, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025 The recent changes include NASA disabling a feature that allowed employees to add pronouns to their email display names, a return-to-office mandate, and sweeping offers for buyouts and a deferred resignation program — part of Musk’s efforts to dramatically downsize the federal workforce. Jackie Wattles, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025 Democrats said workers shouldn't accept the deferred resignation program because it wasn't authorized by Congress, raising the risk they won't get paid. Chris Megerian, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025 Once submitted, employees are expected to receive confirmation of their resignation and details about severance disbursement. Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for resignation 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for resignation
Noun
  • Amid those changes in the business, a new school of thought has emerged: that success is often found in cultural niches that gain mainstream acceptance from the bottom up, not the top down.
    Dan Rys, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2025
  • While many polls show acceptance for LGBTQ+ rights has generally increased over the past 20 years, most Americans are less supportive of transgender girls and women participating in women's sports.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The official was placed on leave for pushing back and announced his retirement shortly after.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • In 2023, Haenel announced her retirement from cinema, citing the complacency and indifference of the French industry to the #MeToo movement as the reason.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In addition, the site notifies you about any account activity, like a password reset or e-file submission.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 4 Feb. 2025
  • This deadline is critical for ensuring eligibility for compensation, and late submissions will not be considered.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Rubio was on the tarmac for the departure of the flight, which was taking 32 men and 11 women back to Colombia.
    Juan Zamorano, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Despite the departures, Hurley believes in his team.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 2 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The defeatism that has come to define the way that many young people today perceive the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis is not really part of her vocabulary.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Some climate scientists prefer to call it climate defeatism instead, and others have called doom the new climate denial because of how disempowering its black-and-white logic is: There is nothing to be done to stop climate collapse, so why bother trying?
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024

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“Resignation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resignation. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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