severance

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Recent Examples of severance This brings to a likely end the March 2024 launched $128 million severance and benefits claim from former CEO, Parag Agrawal, ex-CFO Ned Segal, former CLO Vijaya Gadde, and ex-General Counsel Sean Edgett. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025 Some China-skeptical lawmakers want a complete ban or severance from ByteDance, and MGX’s involvement could further fuel concerns over foreign influence. semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025 In every case, the cities paid their former officials a severance — usually six months to a year of salary plus health insurance, as is routinely stipulated in top city worker contracts. Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 14 Sep. 2025 Some accepted severance and began new chapters. Marie Quintana, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for severance
Recent Examples of Synonyms for severance
Noun
  • This is reportedly why Kidman went ahead and filed for divorce.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Sky-high divorce settlements are becoming the norm in Abu Dhabi, less than five years after a civil court opened to serve non-Emirati residents, Semafor reported.
    Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The breakup pass, into the waiting arms of Noah Brown — nobody back there!
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Someone going through a breakup might tell themselves that their problems are nothing compared with a friend’s cancer diagnosis.
    Reem Kassis, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some artists spend their lives working through the same questions that consume them; Spielberg, for instance, has been processing the dissolution of his family for decades.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
  • During dissolution, the cellulose is chemically modified to aid the formation of a strong molecular network upon regeneration.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Despite their split, both parents have continued to be supportive of their sons.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The gamble backfired and his centrist bloc lost seats to both extremes, leaving France with a three-way split parliament and a government that could not pass major legislation.
    Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But my sense is that estrangement, in one form or another, is at the core of all fiction, film, and art in general.
    Nina Mesfin, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • That empty seat marks the beginning of a painful estrangement, as Ana confronts loneliness for the first time, far from the protection of her parents and her closest companion.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement The trauma and alienation experienced by those who endured military occupation at our nation’s founding suggests the peril of regularizing military rule in American cities today.
    Time, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Research on intergenerational cultural dissonance shows that this kind of constant negotiation can produce stress, identity conflict and feelings of alienation in young people.
    Hind Haddad, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The women wear stunning fashion numbers, Sebastian’s wife Dineo Price slinking down a staircase in a cleavage revealing skimpy number in its opening minutes.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And while certainly showstopping from the front, especially with its deep, cleavage-baring portrait neckline, the dress was even more attention-grabbing from the back with its open silhouette.
    Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bryton and Jahaira tied the knot in March, and their date of separation is listed as June, three months after the ceremony.
    Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The mass layoffs come six months after thousands of researchers, scientists, doctors, support staff and senior leaders were either laid off from HHS or took early retirement or volunteer separation offers.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Severance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severance. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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