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Recent Examples of severance
Ray Wann, a partner and head of employment at Sheridans law firm who has represented both sides in severance negotiations, says that, based on his experience, clubs that sack a manager towards the end of their contract are more likely to pay out the full amount.
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Tom Burrows, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Some have taken the request by the Trump administration to resign with 8-months severance to heart, preferring that over the possibility of being fired.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Platt’s employment agreement guaranteed severance equal to one year’s salary unless he was dismissed for cause.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
Those won’t really have an impact until those severance checks are done and people actually claim for unemployment.
—Nyse, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
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Tom Burrows, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Some have taken the request by the Trump administration to resign with 8-months severance to heart, preferring that over the possibility of being fired.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Platt’s employment agreement guaranteed severance equal to one year’s salary unless he was dismissed for cause.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
Those won’t really have an impact until those severance checks are done and people actually claim for unemployment.
—Nyse, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for severance
Noun
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Shumpert filed a motion for contempt (obtained by In Touch) on May 5th and accused his ex-wife of violating their divorce agreement.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
9 May 2025
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Fey and her team go to some pains to present both parties in the divorce with some empathy.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
9 May 2025
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In the last three years, Showering has had no shortage of such big moments—the birth of her child, a breakup, the loss of two grandmothers, a move from London to rural Somerset.—
Grace Edquist,
Vogue,
8 May 2025
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Anne, a pet parent living in France, recently went through a breakup, which led to her ex-boyfriend moving out of the apartment.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
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More broadly, the dissolution of the foreign aid program is a significant example of a broader trend the administration is pursuing: sacrificing soft power for hard power.—
Time,
Time,
12 May 2025
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The dissolution of the PKK raises a host of questions for the Islamist government of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the pro-American Kurdish forces (YPG) in northern Syrian who helped defeat the Islamist State terrorist movement.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
12 May 2025
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The latter split at the end of the 1968 season due to financial disagreements and eventually founded the current PGA Tour.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 May 2025
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The film’s split into five chapters (the last, in yet another spring, being the punchiest and most effective) can lead to an unbalanced narrative where certain coming-of-age touchstones are emphasized over others that deserve more attention.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
16 May 2025
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The reports included accounts of both Jewish and Muslim students dealing with profound grief over the deaths of loved ones, concerns for their safety and feelings of alienation and academic censorship.—
Jeff Winter,
CNN Money,
2 May 2025
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That sense of alienation, that sense of a slight remove, something bubbling under the surface—that’s as New York a story as glamour or whatever else.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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Just one day prior, the Kardashians star shared some additional stylish bikini photos to her page, including several images of her sporting a metallic gold two-piece bikini — the top of the bikini gathered to form a one-shoulder strap detail that also put her cleavage on display.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
15 May 2025
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In early April, for instance, she was spotted in an immaculate white suit with a double-breasted blazer, gold jewelry, a hint of cleavage, and sharply tailored dress pants.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
16 Apr. 2025
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Florida played from behind all of Game 1, failed to get any separation in Game 2 and had to rally from multiple two-goal deficits in Game 3.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
15 May 2025
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One of the biggest distinctions between a dedicated business owner and someone simply with some side freelance income is the separation of business and personal funds.—
Vlad Rusz,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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Some automakers do that, but I was told the bifurcation of the pack is important to GM because the pack is a structural element of the vehicle.—
Chad Kirchner,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2025
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According to Variety, this bifurcation will likely result in the film’s current release date of October 3 being pushed back.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Severance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severance. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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