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Recent Examples of severance
The employees employees will be offered severance and receive at least 60 days’ advance notice.
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Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
Keep written records, preserve emails and don’t hesitate to speak with an employment lawyer before signing any severance or waiver agreement.
—Jc Serrano, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
In 2024, some of Twitter’s former top brass, including CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde, and General Counsel Sean Edgett, filed a separate lawsuit claiming they were owed more than $128 million in unpaid severance.
—PC Magazine, 23 Aug. 2025
The lawsuit argued that a 2019 severance plan guaranteed that most Twitter workers would receive two months of their base pay plus one week of pay for each full year of service if they were laid off.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
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Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025
Keep written records, preserve emails and don’t hesitate to speak with an employment lawyer before signing any severance or waiver agreement.
—Jc Serrano, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
In 2024, some of Twitter’s former top brass, including CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde, and General Counsel Sean Edgett, filed a separate lawsuit claiming they were owed more than $128 million in unpaid severance.
—PC Magazine, 23 Aug. 2025
The lawsuit argued that a 2019 severance plan guaranteed that most Twitter workers would receive two months of their base pay plus one week of pay for each full year of service if they were laid off.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for severance
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DeVito bookends the movie as pricey divorce attorney Gavin D'Amato, who shares the cautionary tale of Barbara (Turner) and Oliver Rose (Douglas) for a new client, emphasizing just how grisly divorce can be.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
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Cardi initially filed for divorce in September 2020 but called it off.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Jihaad Campbell played 92 percent of the defensive snaps in his NFL debut, finishing with a pass breakup and helping force a game-changing fumble.—
Zach Berman,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Things took a turn when Gary recently went through a breakup and asked her to stay over for emotional support.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Rumors have swirled about personal and financial tensions that led to the dissolution of their professional relationship.—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
5 Sep. 2025
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Khloe Park, who formerly used the name Khloe Couleé, also posted about the dissolution of her relationship with her drag mother on Instagram, taking her thoughts to the grid.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
4 Sep. 2025
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Since their split, Fox has also welcomed a new addition.—
Daniel S. Levine,
People.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The split will reverse a massive but largely unsuccessful 2015 merger arranged by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and the investment firm 3G Capital, Heinz and Kraft’s owners at the time.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
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Jarmusch lulls us into thinking this part will be the exception to the theme of virtual estrangement, just through the bond between the twins that seems to return instantly after an unspecified but seemingly considerable amount of time apart.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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The celebrity chef’s raw and darkly humorous memoir explores her family’s demise and reconstruction — through divorce, estrangements, a brother’s sudden death and another’s suicide.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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My silence felt like cowardice, stemming from a fear of alienation, of feeling unsafe—exactly what the ADL, unironically, pledges to ameliorate in school settings.—
Sahar Mustafah
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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Neither futuristic fantasy nor ornamental flourish, the Vertical Forest became a prototype for weaving living ecosystems into dense urban fabrics, tackling air pollution, biodiversity loss and the alienation of city life all at once.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Floating around the shins and with zero cleavage: now that’s my kind of good-girl dress.—
Alexandra Pereira,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Aug. 2025
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Bunny Vee demonstrates how tacky, in her estimation, a standard serving method — bending forward, a lot of Bunny cleavage showing — can look in a low-cut Playboy Bunny suit.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
14 Aug. 2025
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And Congress is unlikely to grant him new tariff powers after the courts just ruled that doing so unilaterally violated the separation of powers.—
Brett Erickson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Some immigrants fear returning to their native countries due to violence and instability, while others face the risk of deportation and family separation.—
Rick Barrett,
jsonline.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Severance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severance. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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