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Recent Examples of severance
The company anticipates incurring severance costs of about $600 million to $800 million, in addition to $500 million to $700 million in other one-time costs.
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CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
The 36-year-old agreed a severance deal with the Championship club to end a successful two-and-a-half-year spell in north Wales.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
The cost cuts include a $612 million severance charge tied to job reductions, which has shrunk the employee base by about 24% from 275,000 to about 210,000 since Scharf joined the bank in 2019.
—Charlotte Observer, 14 Jan. 2026
The effects of such severance should not be underestimated.
—Ian Savage, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
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CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
The 36-year-old agreed a severance deal with the Championship club to end a successful two-and-a-half-year spell in north Wales.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2026
The cost cuts include a $612 million severance charge tied to job reductions, which has shrunk the employee base by about 24% from 275,000 to about 210,000 since Scharf joined the bank in 2019.
—Charlotte Observer, 14 Jan. 2026
The effects of such severance should not be underestimated.
—Ian Savage, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for severance
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Laura reconnects with her friend Debbie (Jenny Slate), a breast cancer survivor who scored the stunning Cape Cod house in her divorce from George (Rainn Wilson).—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Feb. 2026
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Amy Schumer enjoyed a warm-weather vacation for her first Valentine's Day since filing for divorce from Chris Fischer.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
16 Feb. 2026
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Public relationship milestones may arrive—engagements, breakups, or defining conversations that put love front and center.—
Christina Pérez,
Vogue,
16 Feb. 2026
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But far from throwing chocolates at her TV like Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, Nicole Kidman looks just as carefree and in love with life as any romantic lead just before the third-act breakup and grand gesture portion of events.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
14 Feb. 2026
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Intertextuality is described by Scarlett Barton in perhaps the opposite way, as linked to Roland Barthes’ observation that the author is dead, and that the text is the dissolution of every kind of voice, every beginning and core.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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In 2023, the Move Forward Party campaigned on curbing royal powers, though efforts to reform Thailand’s draconian royal defamation law, known as lèse-majesté or Article 112, were deemed unconstitutional and led to the party’s dissolution by the Constitutional Court.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
9 Feb. 2026
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At last year's conference, Vice President JD Vance delivered a combative address that rattled European capitals and fueled fears of an accelerating trans-Atlantic split.—
Olivia Gazis,
CBS News,
14 Feb. 2026
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In fact, more than 80% of people will have their hearts broken from a romantic split, research suggests.—
Kyra Dahring,
CNN Money,
14 Feb. 2026
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Yeo’s character, a beer supplier at a hawker centre, is an immigrant woman who arrives in the lives of a father and son, embodying the film’s central tension between belonging and estrangement.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2026
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What kind of mean girl would confide in me about her husband Evan’s depression and their financial struggles and her estrangement from her father?—
Jen Wang,
Vogue,
6 Feb. 2026
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That classic capitalist disconnect — the alienation of the worker from their labor — fascinated him, and gave him the confidence that his premise would have universal resonance.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Feb. 2026
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Her daughter Auri has been denied from courses based on her diagnosis alone and has faced alienation at the park, her favorite place to be.—
Gillian Stawiszynski,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
14 Feb. 2026
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Decarbonizing air travel The purification and fractionation steps are being developed jointly by scientists from TU Graz, the University of Zagreb in Croatia, and Portugal’s national energy laboratory (LNEG).—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Dec. 2025
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Additionally, Scotto is optimistic about MPLX delivering mid-single-digit EBITDA growth beyond 2026, driven by contributions from the Eiger pipeline and its Gulf Coast fractionation and export facilities, along with potential mergers and acquisitions.—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
30 Nov. 2025
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Jones’s personal style — a quirky, at times ill-fitting wardrobe of short skirts, cleavage-revealing tops, mumsy cardigans, granny pants and long scarves — helped cement her character into an unforgettable part of noughties pop culture history.—
Kati Chitrakorn,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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The top is extra supportive thanks to an extended bottom and somehow offers cleavage without flimsiness.—
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Severance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severance. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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