1
as in to cede
to give over the legal possession or ownership of
Claire's grandfather agreed to transfer certain stocks to her when she turned 18
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as in to transmit
to cause (something) to pass from one to another
they used Morse Code to transfer the message from one ship to another
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as in to send
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another
will have to transfer you from our San Francisco office to our New York headquarters
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as in to move
to change the place or position of
transferred the car keys from my pocket to my purse
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as in to leave
to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another
before she left the country, she transferred all her record books and important papers to her mother
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Recent Examples of transfer
He was transferred to the Tarrant County Jail.
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Suryatapa Chakraborty, Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
Johnson was one of several players to transfer.
—Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
Former Frog slowed down Former TCU guard PJ Haggerty has become one of the nation’s top scorers since transferring from the program after the 2022-23 season.
—Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2026
Four individuals sustained injuries and have been transferred to medical facilities.
—Hana Al-Khodairi, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2026
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Suryatapa Chakraborty, Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
Johnson was one of several players to transfer.
—Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
Former Frog slowed down Former TCU guard PJ Haggerty has become one of the nation’s top scorers since transferring from the program after the 2022-23 season.
—Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2026
Four individuals sustained injuries and have been transferred to medical facilities.
—Hana Al-Khodairi, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transfer
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In short, according to Colinvaux, courts have upheld that donors have ceded any control in order to qualify for the tax break.—
Hayley Cuccinello,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2026
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to frame Moscow's grinding advance as inevitable, and demanded that Kyiv cede the entire eastern Donbas -- made up of Luhansk and Donetsk regions -- as part of any future peace deal.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
26 Feb. 2026
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Noah discovered that only about one-third of the notes are transmitted in a way that allows providers at nursing homes and rehab facilities to access the information.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
26 Feb. 2026
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The act would mandate wider u,se of ADS-B in and ADS-B out, a safety system that transmits an aircraft's location to other aircraft, NPR's Joel Rose tells Up First.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
25 Feb. 2026
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Kelly might well have wondered when Pinheiro was sent to the screen by video assistant referee Tomasz Kwiatkowski whether his second booking was about to be overturned.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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Dig deep and sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free Survivor Weekly newsletter to have all the latest news, interviews, and commentary sent right to your inbox.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Feb. 2026
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In response to a market-moving piece of dystopian fan fiction fearmongering about AI, Citadel Securities put out its own brief on the historical precedent for AI’s impact and the improbability that the technology will render humans unemployable any more than the typewriter or the internet did.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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But the most ambitious combinations of food and vantage are reserved for lunches, which move daily to points along treks – the rim of a remote lake, a terrace in a quaint village house by the river, or a rooftop with panoramic views in the village of Zhong.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Feb. 2026
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And areas of south Lebanon – Hezbollah’s home turf – have once again been pounded from across the Israeli border, leaving dozens of people killed and injured, while thousands have fled their homes to take shelter out of the line of fire.—
Matthew Chance,
CNN Money,
3 Mar. 2026
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Whatever your status, seek fairness that respects both voices and leaves room for change.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Mar. 2026
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Benjamin Franklin, 81 years of age, handed his closing speech to his Pennsylvania delegate, James Wilson, to be read aloud.—
Michael Golden,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2026
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The Kansas Court of Appeals handed CoreCivic its latest in a string of legal defeats, rejecting the private prison company’s argument that it should be allowed to reopen its Leavenworth facility as an immigrant detention center before securing a local zoning permit.—
Matthew Kelly
February 27,
Kansas City Star,
27 Feb. 2026
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An interview with an 8-year-old In 1995, when my daughter Sarah was about 8 years old, her school assigned the students a report on a civil rights leader for Black History Month.—
Rick Davis,
CNN Money,
27 Feb. 2026
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The study authors give an example of a small bakery, calculating that if that bakery had five workers getting paid $48,000 annual salaries, a visual inspection task assigned to AI that reduced a baker’s work by 6% would save the bakery $14,000 per year.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
26 Feb. 2026
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After supporting the health and livelihood of people in Kenya and Rwanda through medication, the shutdown of the USAID program has left these people susceptible to various illnesses that spread since there are no medications available.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Each seasonal series has three workshops and a field trip spread over two days.—
Hema Sivanandam,
Mercury News,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Transfer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transfer. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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