Example Sentences
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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Acceptance is a huge part of recovering from breakups.
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Ben Silverstone gives a moving performance as teenage Steven, who spends the film fighting bullies and breakups on the path to self-acceptance.
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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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All cheerleaders must be flexible and able to perform the splits by the start of the season.
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Brown can play safety, too, and his ability to wear different hats and align in various splits should boost his hopes of being a starter.
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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 shock departure deepens Starmer’s political woes, exposing cabinet rifts with the Treasury over defense priorities and fueling Labour unrest and speculation that his grip on power is slipping.
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The breastfeeding billing battle UnitedHealthcare is cutting back on paying for lactation counseling, and the clinicians who provide those services are up in arms, another example of the deepening rifts between providers and insurers.
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“Severances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severances. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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