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Recent Examples of severance
Those won’t really have an impact until those severance checks are done and people actually claim for unemployment.
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Nyse, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
While not legally required in most cases, companies often provide severance to ease the transition for affected employees and mitigate potential legal risks.
—Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
Hartman confirmed Martin would get no severance in her separation from the district.
—Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2025
But the actual climactic test on Gemma was just to see if the severance block could hold her personalities apart even when facing deep traumas.
—Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2025
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Nyse, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
While not legally required in most cases, companies often provide severance to ease the transition for affected employees and mitigate potential legal risks.
—Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
Hartman confirmed Martin would get no severance in her separation from the district.
—Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2025
But the actual climactic test on Gemma was just to see if the severance block could hold her personalities apart even when facing deep traumas.
—Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for severance
Noun
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Ball eventually took over Desilu Studios — her production company with Arnaz — after their divorce.—
Julie Tremaine,
People.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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The former couple finalized their divorce in November 2022 after filing in early 2021.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Dolphins fit: Biggers possesses the ideal height, weight and length and can get his hands in passing lanes (seven pass breakups during his collegiate career).—
C. Isaiah Smalls II,
Miami Herald,
26 Apr. 2025
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In theory a negative verdict could result in a company breakup.—
Steven Levy,
Wired News,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Both judges were also accused of undermining the public’s confidence in the judiciary through their comments to The Capital Gazette and other publications, including a Baltimore Banner column calling for the Orphans’ Court’s dissolution.—
Luke Parker,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Apr. 2025
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The beginnings of the dissolution of dialogue Until 1990, American politics and government was always a raucous and contentious how-do-you-do, but ultimately a cooperative venture to one degree or another.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Earlier this month, Bristowe reflected on her 2018 split from ex Shawn Booth and acknowledged her own role in their breakup during an episode of her podcast.—
Stephanie Wenger,
People.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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The new tour follows decades of tension between the brothers, who last performed together during Oasis’ 2009 tour before an infamous backstage blow-up in Paris led to the band’s split.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Mould, drummer Grant Hart, and bassist Greg Norton brought a new language of unguarded personal honesty to an early-Eighties post-hardcore scene where the default emotions were still angst and alienation.—
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
5 Mar. 2025
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But parallel to that is this discussion of why there’s this alienation and loneliness in our society that is ostensibly filled with good, honest, hard-working people.—
Jenelle Riley,
Variety,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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These often reflect deep ethnic and social cleavages, aggravated by external interventions, as well as cruder forms of power struggle.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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In 2022, the actress took to Instagram in a plunging silver sequined jumpsuit that put her cleavage on display.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Creating modular architectures through the adoption of microservices or containers facilitates the separation of functionalities into independent components, each with its own life cycle.—
Manuel Sanchez,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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On the track, Rae sings about escaping into music to get away from life’s troubles, including her parents’ separation.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
18 Apr. 2025
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This proactive approach has resulted in a bifurcation of the industry into two distinct camps: those focused on infrastructure and those prioritizing applications.—
Vivian Toh,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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An ongoing theme of the post-pandemic recovery has been a widening bifurcation of American household finances.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Severance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severance. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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