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Recent Examples of severance
In this world, the severance procedure literally splits the mind into work and non-work compartments, resulting in employees who live dual existences: one governed by the sterile demands of corporate productivity and the other shrouded in personal mystery.
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Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Restructuring costs were $11.1 million, down from $22.7 million, primarily due to lower IT contract termination costs and severance expenses.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2025
Book publisher Macmillan attended and argued it was not bound by the arbitration agreement, which was part of a severance agreement between the employee and company.
—Juby Babu, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
The board also announced that the executive’s employment would cease that very day, granting a severance agreement to end the contract early.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
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Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Restructuring costs were $11.1 million, down from $22.7 million, primarily due to lower IT contract termination costs and severance expenses.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2025
Book publisher Macmillan attended and argued it was not bound by the arbitration agreement, which was part of a severance agreement between the employee and company.
—Juby Babu, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
The board also announced that the executive’s employment would cease that very day, granting a severance agreement to end the contract early.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for severance
Noun
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Spelling first filed for divorce on March 29, 2024.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Stage 4: Resentment continues to build until one or both partners may begin to see divorce as the only way out.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
12 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The wedding of their friends, Jenna and Lion, brings the young lovers face-to-face after a painful breakup.—
Veronica Villafañe,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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In 25 games with the Hurricanes, Williams has 31 tackles, two pass breakups and one tackle for loss.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2025
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Following the band’s dissolution, Carpenter played drums in AWOLNATION for a decade, and also spent time playing with McKagan’s side project, Loaded, as well performing and recording with Adam Lambert, Barbarians of California, A Perfect Circle, The Exies, Ours and Black Lab, among others.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
21 Mar. 2025
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If such filaments exist widely throughout the Milky Way, and the researchers’ theory is correct, their formation and dissolution represents a cyclical balance of depletion and replenishment of molecules in the galaxy.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
20 Mar. 2025
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Indeed 44% of the respondents surveyed think that AI’s effect on individual agency and ability to act independently is likely to be more negative than positive with only 16% predicting a fairly equal split between positive and negative change.—
Tracey Follows,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Proponents of the split argue that Cyber Command has become too big on its own to have to share a leader with a similarly large organization.—
Sam Sabin,
Axios,
8 Apr. 2025
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But parallel to that is this discussion of why there’s this alienation and loneliness in our society that is ostensibly filled with good, honest, hard-working people.—
Jenelle Riley,
Variety,
4 Apr. 2025
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The constant fear of being targeted can push students into social isolation, alienation and difficulty in concentration.—
Nuo Chen,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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There’s a new way to show cleavage, according to Kat Graham.—
Robyn Merrett,
StyleCaster,
19 Mar. 2025
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But the cleavages in Romanian society and politics will be sharpened in the weeks ahead.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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If the plaintiffs say that the dismantling of USAID violates the constitutional separation of powers, those claims should be directed at the administration, the appeals court suggested.—
Lindsay Whitehurst,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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Moves like this challenge the separation of powers and the politicization of regulatory agencies.—
Doug Melville,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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An ongoing theme of the post-pandemic recovery has been a widening bifurcation of American household finances.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2025
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That bifurcation extends to your casting as well.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Severance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severance. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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