How to Use divestiture in a Sentence

divestiture

noun

• Divestitures are used to break up monopolies.
• Before divestiture, the telephone company monopolized the state.
• 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
• Hasbro swung to a profit in the second quarter as revenue fell 18 percent due to the divestiture of eOne.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2024
• 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
• The divestiture of the company’s Infrastructure business accounted for 17 percentage points of decline.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2024
• Yost also defended the grocers' divestiture plan to C&S, saying that the move sufficiently addresses the competitive overlap.
  — Kimberly Chin, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024