Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for severances
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The celebrity chef’s raw and darkly humorous memoir explores her family’s demise and reconstruction — through divorce, estrangements, a brother’s sudden death and another’s suicide.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025 -
Co-written by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, the film blends sharp humor with aching self-reflection as the pair navigates a whirlwind of public tributes, old grudges and family estrangements, forcing both men to confront the choices, compromises and identities that have defined their lives.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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Frederique, a Freshman All-American a season ago, has a team-leading five pass breakups to go along with 10 tackles.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
3 Nov. 2025
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Through eight games, Jones has two interceptions, nine pass breakups, 36 tackles, six tackles for loss and one sack on defense.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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After buyouts, early retirements, voluntary separations and a Reduction in Force, the agency was shrunk nearly in half earlier this year.—
Arthur Jones II,
ABC News,
11 Oct. 2025
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Garrett added that separations can stem from safety concerns, self-harm risk or threats from others inside the facility.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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Netflix has had two splits previously, with the last one, a seven-to-one split, taking place in 2015.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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Yamamoto threw four straight splits before striking out Guerrero swinging on a curveball.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
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Only the Earth's brittle crust and descending cool slabs of tectonic plates can store and release elastic energy through fault ruptures.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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What happens if a brain aneurysm ruptures?—
Kaan Ozcan,
NBC news,
23 Oct. 2025
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The European Union is also likely to take a strong role, though internal rifts have emerged within the EU regarding how aggressively to cut its own emissions.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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Stranger Things season 5 will pick up the story in the fall of 1987 at a time when the military has placed the entire town of Hawkins under military quarantine over the rifts that emerged.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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But aggregate consumer spending masks schisms below the surface.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
2 Oct. 2025
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This brings us to the differences between the characters, which point to pivotal schisms between Anderson and Pynchon as storytellers.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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Scientists tracking humpbacks off the coast of Australia have captured rare footage that shows clutches of the freeloading fish peeling away from their host in what looks like a high-speed game of chicken, just moments before the whale breaches.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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The producers said the accounts may raise serious questions about conduct on-the-ground and potential breaches of international law.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Severances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severances. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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