step aside (from)

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as in to leave
to give up (a job or office) a newscaster who knew when it was time to step aside from the anchor desk and let a younger person take over

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for step aside (from)
Verb
  • The only two albums left in her catalog yet to be released as a re-recording are Reputation and her debut album.
    Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
  • Place the basil leaves (and optional lemon zest) into a clean glass jar.
    Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
Verb
  • For example, ​​the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and almost a dozen other lawyers were either forced to resign or chose to leave their posts over the DOJ's handling of the Eric Adams corruption case.
    Sophie Clark Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
  • But many of his jobs ended with him being fired or forced to resign, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
Verb
  • Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with one of the subjects’ descendants.
    Leah Willingham, Christian Science Monitor, 28 May 2025
  • Despite bipartisan and nearly unequivocal support for Gypsum Canyon in the intervening four years, Agran has refused to relinquish his goal of completing a veterans cemetery in Irvine.
    Jonathan Horwitz, Oc Register, 28 May 2025
Verb
  • Seen for First Time Since Hospitalization King Frederik assumed the throne in January 2024, following Queen Margrethe's decision to abdicate.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 28 May 2025
  • Akihito, who ascended to the throne after his father, Hirohito, died in 1989, became the first Japanese monarch in 200 years to abdicate his post.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 5 May 2025
Verb
  • Privately, the show’s lead actress, Emily Meade, threatened to quit.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • After being a successful child actor in the 1950s, Talbot quit acting at the age of 14.
    Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 7 June 2025
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“Step aside (from).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/step%20aside%20%28from%29. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.

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