How to Use severance in a Sentence

severance

noun
  • While debt cleaves to bodies, its collection requires severance from them.
    Kristin Collier, Longreads, 1 Dec. 2021
  • California is the only major oil-producing state that does not impose a tax on oil severance — or extraction or depletion, choose your word.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The contracts also provide that if a member loses their job due to AI, they are entitled to severance and retraining.
    Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 18 July 2024
  • The elimination of hundreds of jobs is expected to result in pre-tax severance costs between $86 million and $94 million.
    Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Dec. 2021
  • But at 51-years-old, a company restructure left the former senior vice president with a hefty severance check and the chance to do something completely different.
    Akira Olivia Kumamoto, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2021
  • At 31, he was laid off and used his severance to start over.
    Robert Simonson, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The judge has not yet ruled on the men’s requests for dismissals and severance.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2022
  • Mark chose severance after a tragic loss, and the brain split works for him.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Jagger paid off the bills, the employees’ salaries and their severance.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
  • At that rate of pay, the severance package he had been offered was the equivalent of about six months of pay.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022
  • The total amount of his severance package is $105 million in cash and stock.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Focus on getting the severance you were promised and a great reference for a new job.
    Amy Dickinson, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • As part of the agreement, Mack will receive a $4.8 million severance payment from the school.
    Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The city hasn’t yet released details of any severance package for Greene.
    oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2022
  • In some cases, my clients received two incomes for a while, the severance income and the new job income.
    Robert Hellmann, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Focus now on getting the severance you were promised along with a great reference for a new job.
    Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The company laid off a bunch of people, eating $3.4 million in severance costs alone over the next few months.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The severance payment is larger than called for in Boogs Muething's contract.
    Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Gerber’s contract with the city of Shawnee states that his firing without cause would require the city to pay six months worth of his salary as severance.
    Sarah Ritter, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But each of those executives is set to walk away with a hefty severance package.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • There are more good quotes to be found in the scene in which Beth meets with her former employers to discuss her severance package.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
  • However, the talks didn't end in a deal, and the severance lawsuits continue.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 10 July 2024
  • Fox News withheld over 30% of the settlement for taxes like they would for a payment of wages or a severance payment.
    Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Those who aren't accepted for new roles will receive four months of severance.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2023
  • They have been told benefits will last through next week and there will be no severance, according to one person briefed on the plans.
    Stephen Battagliostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Those who are unable to find new roles at the broader company will be given at least six months of severance.
    Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Kinney, who was making around $21.75 an hour, took the third option: walking away with two months’ severance.
    Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
  • The typical formula for a severance package is one or two weeks of pay for each year of service.
    Vanessa Fuhrmans, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
  • In the 10-episode Season 2, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 10 July 2024
  • Per the official synopsis, Season 2 finds Mark and his friends learning the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 July 2024

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