How to Use divestiture in a Sentence

divestiture

noun
  • Divestitures are used to break up monopolies.
  • Before divestiture, the telephone company monopolized the state.
  • In response, Pincus argued that divestiture is impossible.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The divestiture is expected to close by the end of March.
    Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Net sales were down about 12% from the same time last year, due to the divestiture of certain pet food brands.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Whether more divestitures could again prove to be the spark eBay needs remains to be seen.
    Laura Forman, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2019
  • Among the half below the threshold, the FTC required just three divestitures.
    Greg Ip, WSJ, 19 June 2019
  • The closing of the divestiture is dependent on the closing of the CVS-Aetna deal.
    Allison Prang, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Duffy, the Justice Department lawyer, tried to close the door on more divestitures.
    Michael Casey, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The companies would aim to close the deal within six months and expect to make no divestitures, the person said.
    Jonathan Roeder and Craig Giammona / Bloomberg, Time, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Pai's statement did not say which station divestitures would break the law.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 16 July 2018
  • The divestiture bill is not the only one to appear on Beacon Hill this session.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
  • The divestiture of GE’s Baker Hughes oil and gas business was less of a surprise.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2018
  • But selling off the business, known as a divestiture, might not be enough, the memo acknowledges.
    Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Without the divestiture, the broadcast giant would have owned more than 200 stations across the country.
    Alexandria Burris, Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Partners and divestitures have been talked about before, but the language used today was a bit more emphatic than in the past.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The largest divestiture this year is an $11 billion deal to sell its locomotive unit.
    Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 25 June 2018
  • This is of a piece with federal efforts to force a Meta divestiture of Instagram.
    Loren Thompson, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • There is no obvious buyer for BP’s Russian stake, and the company warned that the divestiture would force it to take a large write-off in the first quarter.
    New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The loss was tied to the divestiture of certain life-insurance businesses.
    Leslie Scism, WSJ, 4 May 2022
  • The value, double the divestiture goal for this year and the next, should ensure the target is met, Parente said in an interview in Houston.
    Sabrina Valle, Bloomberg.com, 1 May 2017
  • The soap-making operation was the last of the big divestitures at the facility.
    Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The judge asked both sides if there were other divestitures by JetBlue and Spirit that might make the merger acceptable.
    Michael Casey, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Critics argue that the aim is to make divestiture more difficult.
    The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The divestiture proposal will be filed in federal court and opened to public comment for 60 days.
    Marcy Gordon, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2018
  • Flannery and his team are working on some $20 billion worth of divestitures, and have floated the idea that one or more of the company’s core businesses could be spun out.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • For Celgene and Bristol-Myers, the divestiture will pave the way to one of the pharmaceutical industry’s largest mergers of the past decade.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • The Supreme Court forced the divestiture of the studios’ theater assets in 1948, resulting in settlements known as the Paramount Decrees.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Last quarter, executives highlighted the divestiture of its business that makes garbage trucks and acquisitions in clean energy.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The divestiture is designed to allay regulators’ concerns that a combined Kroger-Albertsons would gain a headlock on the supermarket business in certain places, including Arizona.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2024

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