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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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In an excerpt published by People, Hanks writes about her turbulent upbringing, the aftermath of her parents’ divorce and her quest to understand her mom.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
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Apter shines an an edgy light on these hidden griefs: grandparents cut off from grandchildren due to divorce, disputes, or simply differing values.—
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Little Feat, the archetypal ’70s band originally formed by Lowell George — a guitar virtuoso fired from the Mothers of Invention by Frank Zappa — has survived years of breakups, drug problems and even George’s untimely death in 1979.—
Dave Brooks,
Billboard,
3 Apr. 2025
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While the two, who got engaged in 2022, have kept their romance mostly private, breakup rumors swirled when Sweeney recently deleted a photo of Davino from her Instagram.—
Robyn Merrett,
StyleCaster,
2 Apr. 2025
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Every good film is, to some degree, a transporting experience—a dissolution of boundaries between here and there, then and now.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2025
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As President Donald Trump pursues the dissolution of the Department of Education, local leaders are scrambling to understand how staffing cuts and the potential loss of federal funding will affect schools.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
28 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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Studios tend to dismiss China’s impact given the low split and lack of ancillary sales, but the market there can still help burnish a film’s global box office take.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
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
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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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However, the Magnificent 7 stocks have seen internal bifurcation in 2025, showing signs of exhaustion.—
Jeff Kilburg,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Severance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severance. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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