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Recent Examples of Synonyms for severances
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The trailer teased screaming matches, tears, accusations of betrayal and clear dissolutions of multiple relationships — both romantic and platonic.
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There could be more dissolutions and consolidations in the future.
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For some, the reason behind such estrangements might seem clear to both parties.
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The couple, who did not grow up knowing one another because of estrangements in their families, faced criticism from both sets of parents for the union.
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The app has become a quintessential cog in the dating machine—especially in those liminal stages, the flirtations and the breakups.
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Advertisement Wilde recognizes that people will inevitably draw parallels between her public breakups and the decisions made by characters in the movie.
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The cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco has made a career of rescuing history from the cleavages of memory.
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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.
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Layoffs could follow if the company doesn't meet the target for voluntary separations, Bloomberg reported.
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Workspaces and environments enforce these separations.
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Maureen Groppe Get ready for some ideological splits.
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Public discussions surrounding prop firm success typically focus on marketing, challenge design, profit splits and trader acquisition.
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In 2016, a multifault event — the Kaikōura earthquake in New Zealand — took people by surprise, says Goldfinger, and changed scientists' understanding of how interconnected faults can trigger multiple ruptures.
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Though earthquakes can cause dramatic ground movement — tearing ruptures in land and moving larger areas by several inches — such movement is typically more localized than the country-long seismic event detected by Park and her colleagues.
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The fallout from Batula and Wilson’s relationship caused some rifts in the friend group, and their exits were not entirely surprising.
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For a party that prides itself on diversity, the clashes have exacerbated fierce debates over identity politics and long-standing rifts between progressives and moderates.
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“Severances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severances. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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