as in farewell
given, taken, or performed at parting
she gave him a parting gift to remember her by
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as in departure
the act or process of two or more persons going off in different directions
although their parting was sad, they knew they would see each other again
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2
as in departing
the act of leaving a place
everyone waved goodbye at his parting
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as in separating
to go or move in different directions from a central point
after traveling together for three weeks, we parted at Rome
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as in exiting
to leave a place often for another
parted with great ceremony but with little preparation for the dangers that lay ahead
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as in dividing
to set or force apart
parted the prongs with pliers
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as in dying
to stop living
before I part, I hope I have the opportunity to say my good-byes
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Recent Examples of parting
Damon Wise, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2025
Before parting ways for the return journey, Probst had a gift for the drummer.
—EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Of course, there was still the series' finale to look forward to and consider — at least that might leave audiences with a blissful, parting image of Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Noun
The skit ends with Craig moodily cycling off on a tandem while Figgis puts his parting gift, a big white teddy bear, in the trash.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2025
Before parting ways for the return journey, Probst had a gift for the drummer.
—EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
His parting vision of her funeral pyre both recalls and anticipates the devastated city of Carthage, sacked by Rome.
—Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Of course, there was still the series' finale to look forward to and consider — at least that might leave audiences with a blissful, parting image of Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parting
Adjective
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Slayer produced a farewell tour in 2018-2019 but has regrouped for a few shows in the years since.—
Kirby Adams,
Louisville Courier Journal,
18 Sep. 2025
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Watch Osbourne and his friends and family discuss his final years, the 2019 accident that led him to cancel his farewell tour, and the subsequent one-off Black Sabbath concert in Birmingham, England, below.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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His exit, which was was first reported by The Wall Street Journal earlier this month, was part of a string of high-profile departures at Musk's AI startup.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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Running constant checks on gate numbers and departure times.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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How much of the two presidents Alaskans will be able to see beyond their aircraft arriving and departing is unclear.—
Al Weaver,
The Hill,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The train then collided with the trailer, separating it from the cab, breaking it into multiple parts and rolling it.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
16 Sep. 2025
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New Jersey is creating a stand-alone Department of Veterans Affairs, separating it from military operations in a move aimed at improving oversight of services for veterans and their families.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Mark McNamara will continue having to defend himself against the wrongful-shooting claims of K’aun Green, who McNamara shot four times as Green was exiting a downtown taqueria on March 27, 2022 after a brawl inside the eatery.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
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Paramount executive Marc Weinstock will be exiting his role as president of worldwide marketing and distribution.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Ideas that seemed intriguing in the salons of Paris—ideas like dividing the whole country up into eighty-one uniform squares, each administered as a unit of local government—turned out to be ridiculously unworkable.—
Paul Kingsnorth,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Rather than dividing audiences into silos, The Pacha Group has created a more universal Ibiza where social circles that once stood apart now overlap.—
Ashlee Marie Preston,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Wilson's dying body was pulled inside the home by the family and restrained with his own handcuffs.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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As much of a character as any of the humans on the series, pup Eddie — played by Jack Russell terrier Moose — lived a long life, dying in 2006 at age 16.—
Kate Hogan,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Israel accuses the commission of having a political agenda against Israel and diverging from its mandate, and declined to cooperate with it.—
Emma Farge,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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In this ambitious account, Wang, a technology analyst with a journalist’s eye for color, uses studies of Chinese innovation to show how the two countries’ diverging paths and pathologies can be traced to their political cultures.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Parting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parting. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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