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Recent Examples of severance
Read severance agreements carefully before signing Do not immediately agree to any of the terms presented in the layoff, Fudali recommends.
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Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 7 Mar. 2025
The company incurred $3.9 million in severance charges related to this restructuring.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2025
TelevisaUnivision disclosed restructuring, severance and related charges of $53.4 million for the fourth quarter, compared with $24.2 million in the year-ago period.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2025
Somewhere else, another woman is taking advantage of the obliviousness inherent to severance.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
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Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 7 Mar. 2025
The company incurred $3.9 million in severance charges related to this restructuring.
—Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2025
TelevisaUnivision disclosed restructuring, severance and related charges of $53.4 million for the fourth quarter, compared with $24.2 million in the year-ago period.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2025
Somewhere else, another woman is taking advantage of the obliviousness inherent to severance.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for severance
Noun
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According to the Journal & Courier, Michael filed for divorce from Kristine in 2014.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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In 2020, Clarkson filed for divorce from Blackstock, who also served as her manager.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
Fox News,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Their affiliation agreement ended in late December, and after months of negotiations, the sides opted for a breakup.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
21 Mar. 2025
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Following their breakup just before season 3 of Outer Banks began production, Cline and Stokes continued to film together.—
Liza Esquibias,
People.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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As California leaders fight against President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, Sacramento schools are in limbo — waiting to see what kind of potentially devastating ramifications that the dissolution of the department could have on their operations.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacramento Bee,
14 Mar. 2025
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Listen: The Five Eyes have noticed Hanging over the rapid dissolution of these old relationships is the question of who would lead in the United States’ absence.—
Shane Harris,
The Atlantic,
6 Mar. 2025
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Trump last year won Sauk — split between Democratic-leaning areas closer to Madison and a more conservative rural northwest — by 626 votes after Democrat Joe Biden won the county by 615 votes in 2020.—
Thomas Beaumont,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2025
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My colleague Kellis Robinett has reported Kansas State plans to keep 20% for men’s basketball, but the Jayhawks will probably have a different split, given the importance of men’s basketball to the athletic department in Lawrence.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
28 Mar. 2025
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Limited social mobility leads to alienation of the disenfranchised, and ossification.—
Suwanna Gauntlett,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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The alienation of children from the values and traditions of their parents is a central subject of modern Yiddish literature—most famously in Sholem Aleichem’s stories about the dairyman Tevye and his daughters.—
Adam Kirsch,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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There’s a new way to show cleavage, according to Kat Graham.—
Robyn Merrett,
StyleCaster,
19 Mar. 2025
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But the cleavages in Romanian society and politics will be sharpened in the weeks ahead.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
10 Mar. 2025
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If the plaintiffs say that the dismantling of USAID violates the constitutional separation of powers, those claims should be directed at the administration, the appeals court suggested.—
Lindsay Whitehurst,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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Moves like this challenge the separation of powers and the politicization of regulatory agencies.—
Doug Melville,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Baseball is littered with young stars driving excitement in markets such as Cincinnati, Kansas City and Pittsburgh, but the sport continues to struggle with its massive bifurcation on team spending.—
Kurt Badenhausen,
Sportico.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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However, the bifurcation of the market — with investors moving out of tech, momentum, and cyclicals and into defensives — may be obscuring the Oscillator’s reading.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Severance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severance. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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