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as in desertion
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Recent Examples of defection
The rollout comes as Charter and its industry peers contend with several trends: slowing broadband customer growth, continued defections from the cable TV bundle, and a young but speedily expanding mobile business.
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Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2024
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson will have little room for defections on key votes when the new Congress convenes in January.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
What experts agree on is that the junta’s leadership turmoil, along with steady defections on the ground, spell impending collapse one way or another.
—Koh Ewe, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
Pyongyang may also stare down issues with desertion and defection, Yeo noted.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2024
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson will have little room for defections on key votes when the new Congress convenes in January.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
What experts agree on is that the junta’s leadership turmoil, along with steady defections on the ground, spell impending collapse one way or another.
—Koh Ewe, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
Pyongyang may also stare down issues with desertion and defection, Yeo noted.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defection
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Snuffer is a lawyer who lives in Utah and was excommunicated from the LDS Church in 2013 for apostasy.Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Sep. 2024
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This is the apostasy of the age, refusing to give these spiritually lost characters their proper complexity.Armond White, National Review, 8 May 2024
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There have also been widespread reports of desertion with entire units abandoning their posts, leaving defense lines vulnerable, according to commanders and soldiers, Defense News reported.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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Her mother, identified as Ashley Rowland, was taken into custody for child desertion in connection to this case in October and accused of giving Kerr to a man during a drug exchange, local news reported.Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2024
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To arrive at this integration, however, he must be stripped, like Voss, of his own pretensions and the schisms within his self.Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
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Attending the new pope is a revelation that really could throw the church into open schism.Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
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Inconsistent caregiving, meanwhile, can lead to anxious attachment, where people crave intimacy but simultaneously fear abandonment and rejection.Ian Randall, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
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Volunteers advocate for children who have been removed from their home from either abuse, abandonment or neglect.Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2024
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The second major structural change involves one of the hallmarks of SARS-CoV-2 as compared to SARS-CoV-1: initial scission at the S1 furin cleavage site.William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 May 2022
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When the nucleus ultimately disintegrates, these pieces move apart rapidly and the neck snaps quickly, a process known as scission.Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2021
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So far, Loren has dropped several bombshells on Faith, including his STD diagnosis and his infidelity.Liza Esquibias, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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Busting 3 common myths about infidelity Clinical psychologist Talal Alsaleem has helped hundreds of couples work through romantic affairs.Malaka Gharib, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024
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Turkey Turkey supported some opposition groups and later began military operations in northern Syria, mainly to curb Kurdish separatism and prevent Kurdish forces from gaining too much power on its border.Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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The claim was patently false: Within India, Sikh separatism has not been a force since the 1990s.Daniel Block, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2024
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Despite how much these factors can impact our daily lives, there are still many misconceptions about who is most vulnerable and what employers can or should do to help.Sean Fogarty, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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This is something called the therapeutic misconception, where patients believe that being part of an experiment, that experiment is actually intended to benefit them.Mandy Nguyen, Vox, 30 Nov. 2024
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“Defection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defection. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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