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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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Both judges were also accused of undermining the public’s confidence in the judiciary through their comments to The Capital Gazette and other publications, including a Baltimore Banner column calling for the Orphans’ Court’s dissolution.—
Luke Parker,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Apr. 2025
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The beginnings of the dissolution of dialogue Until 1990, American politics and government was always a raucous and contentious how-do-you-do, but ultimately a cooperative venture to one degree or another.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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Earlier this month, Bristowe reflected on her 2018 split from ex Shawn Booth and acknowledged her own role in their breakup during an episode of her podcast.—
Stephanie Wenger,
People.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Minter’s splits have been mostly equal against right- and left-handed hitters, which allows the Mets to deploy him in various situations and leverages.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
22 Apr. 2025
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Mould, drummer Grant Hart, and bassist Greg Norton brought a new language of unguarded personal honesty to an early-Eighties post-hardcore scene where the default emotions were still angst and alienation.—
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
5 Mar. 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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These often reflect deep ethnic and social cleavages, aggravated by external interventions, as well as cruder forms of power struggle.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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In 2022, the actress took to Instagram in a plunging silver sequined jumpsuit that put her cleavage on display.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Creating modular architectures through the adoption of microservices or containers facilitates the separation of functionalities into independent components, each with its own life cycle.—
Manuel Sanchez,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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On the track, Rae sings about escaping into music to get away from life’s troubles, including her parents’ separation.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
18 Apr. 2025
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This proactive approach has resulted in a bifurcation of the industry into two distinct camps: those focused on infrastructure and those prioritizing applications.—
Vivian Toh,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 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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“Severance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severance. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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