severances

noun

plural of severance
as in alienations

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for severances
  1. dissolutions
  2. estrangements
  3. breakups
  4. cleavages
  5. separations
  6. splits
  7. ruptures
  8. rifts
Noun
  • Moms for Liberty’s influence has been on a long decline in its home state as the organization faced a wave of resignations, chapter dissolutions and scandals among Moms for Liberty leadership.
    — Trinity Webster-Bass, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
  • The trailer teased screaming matches, tears, accusations of betrayal and clear dissolutions of multiple relationships — both romantic and platonic.
    — Pilar Melendez, NBC news, 27 May 2026
Definition of dissolutions
Noun
  • In Vietnamese director Lê Bảo’s new film, an extended family confronts various rifts and estrangements in its ranks; years of silence must give way, slowly and haltingly, to communication.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026
  • For some, the reason behind such estrangements might seem clear to both parties.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 10 May 2026
Definition of estrangements
Noun
  • Moore has only 13 tackles and five pass breakups, in large part because teams have thrown away from him.
    — Michael Marot, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
  • However, breakups can be quite the public relations nightmare.
    — StyleCaster Editors, StyleCaster, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of breakups
Noun
  • As Trump slides toward lame-duck status, cleavages within the group and between it and traditional progressives are becoming more salient.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Intelligence agencies in the United States and other Western countries closely follow these cleavages, of course, and can sometimes recruit the disaffected or the ambitious to provide insider information.
    — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Definition of cleavages
Noun
  • But remarkably few agents followed in Childress’s footsteps; Farris, for example, refused to participate in separations but did not quit, asking his supervisor to assign him elsewhere instead.
    — Francisco Cantú, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Under the new grant, Caravel plans to expand its platform to additional enzyme classes for existing customers and work toward pilot deployments in applications including DNA synthesis, carbon capture and rare earth separations.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of separations
Noun
  • The ballot measure has driven at times surprising splits in some California political camps.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • In an unexpected twist, Shue and Fiebig entered a relationship of their own following their respective splits.
    — Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of splits
Noun
  • Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Wrapped Reichstag, 1995, suggested a building undergoing metamorphosis, marking it as a site where the chain of signification ruptures to give form, as in Psychopedis’s painting, to a secret.
    — Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
  • And while trade ruptures with the US were the impetus for Carney’s push with the EU, the impact of the trade war with the US has not been limited to trade.
    — Soph Warnes, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of ruptures
Noun
  • But as factions jockey to succeed him, the crisis has exacerbated political rifts.
    — EMILIO SANABRIA, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2026
  • But the Michigan race has been mired in tensions since a bitter primary battle that ended with El-Sayed’s narrow defeat of Stevens and that exposed deep rifts in the party over Israel.
    — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of rifts
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