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as in cedes
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 transmits
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 sends
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 moves
to change the place or position of
transferred the car keys from my pocket to my purse
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as in leaves
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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as in hands
to shift possession of (something) from one person to another
transferred the ball to the running back
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Recent Examples of transfers
The transfer shell game The problems compound when ICE transfers detainees without notice, a practice attorneys said is a kind of shell game designed to frustrate legal challenges.
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Ben Fenwick, Oklahoma Watch, 13 Feb. 2026
Save Your Pay, which transfers a percentage of each paycheck into savings, and Save Your Change, which rounds up checking account transactions to the nearest dollar and transfers the difference to savings.
—Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
Bodyman centers on a violent power struggle that unfolds during a family Christmas gathering after an eccentric billionaire unexpectedly transfers control of his private military company to his longtime bodyguard, played by Jonas, instead of to his adult children.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 10 Feb. 2026
Using a flashback structure that details Eleanor’s life from the 1950s on, balanced against the present-day story of her two children, Black Cake transfers Wilkerson’s continent- and decades-spanning story to screen.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
In these systems, a dye molecule absorbs light and transfers the energy to a catalyst surface.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
According to the Israeli security agencies, the network receives, stores, and transfers Iranian funds from within Turkey.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 8 Dec. 2025
Plurality simply chooses the candidates with the most first-place votes, while ranked choice voting eliminates the person with the fewest first-place votes and transfers their votes to the next candidate on each ballot.
—Andy Schultz, The Conversation, 2 Dec. 2025
The federal government now transfers more than $40 billion annually from the general fund to the Highway Trust Fund, with approximately $10 billion of that representing a direct subsidy to the trucking industry.
—Michael F. Gorman, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2025
Ben Fenwick, Oklahoma Watch, 13 Feb. 2026
Save Your Pay, which transfers a percentage of each paycheck into savings, and Save Your Change, which rounds up checking account transactions to the nearest dollar and transfers the difference to savings.
—Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 10 Feb. 2026
Bodyman centers on a violent power struggle that unfolds during a family Christmas gathering after an eccentric billionaire unexpectedly transfers control of his private military company to his longtime bodyguard, played by Jonas, instead of to his adult children.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 10 Feb. 2026
Using a flashback structure that details Eleanor’s life from the 1950s on, balanced against the present-day story of her two children, Black Cake transfers Wilkerson’s continent- and decades-spanning story to screen.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
In these systems, a dye molecule absorbs light and transfers the energy to a catalyst surface.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
According to the Israeli security agencies, the network receives, stores, and transfers Iranian funds from within Turkey.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 8 Dec. 2025
Plurality simply chooses the candidates with the most first-place votes, while ranked choice voting eliminates the person with the fewest first-place votes and transfers their votes to the next candidate on each ballot.
—Andy Schultz, The Conversation, 2 Dec. 2025
The federal government now transfers more than $40 billion annually from the general fund to the Highway Trust Fund, with approximately $10 billion of that representing a direct subsidy to the trucking industry.
—Michael F. Gorman, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transfers
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The specialization that cedes politics, economics or communication to separate disciplines is, in sociology, an invitation to synthesize and to consider how these broad social processes engage, reinforce or conflict with one another.—
Wendy Nelson Espeland,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The lead-up to Kennedy’s circus of sci-fi fantasists and food bloggers provides an object lesson in how the left cedes fertile political territory to the right.—
Annie Levin,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026
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The CubeSat takes a high-definition image of its surroundings every 2 minutes and transmits it to the laptop.—
Joanna Goodrich,
IEEE Spectrum,
31 Dec. 2025
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In one of his stories a fabricator of artificial eyes creates a portable surveillance camera in the form of an egg-size eyeball that transmits images to its creator.—
Michael Dirda,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Dec. 2025
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An accidental rear-end collision is what brings Davis and Maya together in the first place—and their ensuing relationship, though not without its bumps, sends the story on some of its more pleasurable curves.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2026
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In the fall, my dad sends me text messages with updates on his further Foucault studies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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An annular solar eclipse happens when the moon moves between Earth and the sun, but is too far from Earth to completely cover the sun's disk.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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Every year from approximately November 22 to December 21, the sun moves through the ninth sign of the zodiac, Sagittarius, symbolized by the Archer.—
Maressa Brown,
InStyle,
15 Feb. 2026
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In the last few seconds, the black holes whirl around each other at near the speed of light, emitting ever more powerful gravitational waves until the two actually merge, combining in one gluttonous gulp that leaves behind a single, more massive black hole.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
13 Feb. 2026
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Modern systems, including those from ADT, offer smart features that detect when your mobile device leaves a preset boundary (geofence) around your home.—
Lydia Mansel,
Southern Living,
13 Feb. 2026
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The artist then walks over and hands Lincoln what appears to be a Grammy.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Linden grabs a bottle of water from our minifridge and hands it to me.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
4 Feb. 2026
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No map—not even special ones developed by the Swiss military and downloadable to one's phone—properly conveys the area's topographical irregularity.—
Alice Gregory,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Feb. 2026
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The outrage infrastructure that has cropped up around the game since then conveys a totalizing hunger for culture war.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
9 Feb. 2026
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Fear often spreads faster than facts, and perspective usually becomes its first casualty.—
Steve Booren,
Denver Post,
15 Feb. 2026
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Like a blazing inferno, the riot spreads swiftly and suddenly.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Transfers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transfers. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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