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Recent Examples of severance
The woman who until very recently managed Santee’s day-to-day affairs is getting a severance payment worth more than $131,000.
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Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2025
According to the company, Six Flags America currently employs 70 full-time associates, who will be eligible for severance and other benefits.
—Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2025
Additionally, the Emerging & Other segment reduced its losses significantly, aided by the absence of prior-year severance and transaction-related costs, further contributing to the overall EBITDA growth.
—Joe Cornell, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
His contract required a lump sum severance payment worth six months of his salary and a payout for any unused vacation days or sick leave if he was fired without cause.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 1 May 2025
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Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2025
According to the company, Six Flags America currently employs 70 full-time associates, who will be eligible for severance and other benefits.
—Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 16 May 2025
Additionally, the Emerging & Other segment reduced its losses significantly, aided by the absence of prior-year severance and transaction-related costs, further contributing to the overall EBITDA growth.
—Joe Cornell, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
His contract required a lump sum severance payment worth six months of his salary and a payout for any unused vacation days or sick leave if he was fired without cause.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for severance
Noun
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Some exert control through violence, some through financial dominance, and others through the threat of divorce and social isolation.—
TrickleUp,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Per the filing, the couple's divorce is uncontested and will only need a judge to sign off.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2025
Noun
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While rumors of their breakup continued to circulate online at the time, fans noticed a small detail missing from Sweeney’s Instagram account.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
31 May 2025
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Again and again, West apologized to Ciara Miller for talking mess to the New York Times, handling their breakup poorly, and then clamming up all summer.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
30 May 2025
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The breakthrough is the fruit of incredible recent performance in all age groups for the nation of 36 million people, which became independent in 1991 after the dissolution of the USSR.—
Hassan Tayir,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
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Why, then, engage language at all? Lijn explained her simultaneous recruitment and dissolution of language as a way to cope with her growing sense that words had become tired and lost any vital force.—
Marina Isgro,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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For instance, if the cost of a service is $1,000, and the state and federal government split is 50-50, the state might add a 5% provider tax that would bring the total cost of the service to $1,050.—
Caitlin Yilek,
CBS News,
29 May 2025
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The former couple split 11 months after welcoming their baby girl in October 2000.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
29 May 2025
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The filmmaker may have set the movie in a Finnish location known to few but the universal story rings a bell on alienation and the healing powers of community that seems fit to strike a chord with audiences far beyond Finland.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2025
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Even doing it for a week improves your sense of well-being and decreases your sense of alienation and loneliness.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
Noun
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The second photo offered a close-up of Amurri's cleavage area.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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And leather boots, barely-there flayed skirts, faux leather, faux ostrich feathers, and while crowds at Lollapalooza may edge ever closer to public nudity, Charli and her ongoing Brat Summer tour clearly inspired a cleavage arms race for the ages.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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But left-hander Jared Shuster gave up three straight singles with two outs in the bottom of the eighth, and Lindor drove in an insurance run to get some separation from the Sox.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2025
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But the recent crisis shows that too much separation creates its own problems.—
Tima Bansal,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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But the archaeological samples defied this seasonal bifurcation.—
Benjamin Cassidy,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
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Some automakers do that, but I was told the bifurcation of the pack is important to GM because the pack is a structural element of the vehicle.—
Chad Kirchner,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2025
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“Severance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severance. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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