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as in separated
to set or force apart
disapproving parents who were willing to do anything to sever the young lovers
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Recent Examples of severed
Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
Williams currently is on trial with five co-defendants in the case after more than 20 others charged in the indictment either took plea deals or had their cases severed.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
The company has already severed ties with major enterprise software providers like Salesforce and Workday, opting instead to develop its own applications, likely built on OpenAI's infrastructure.
—Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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Friendships, family and professional relationships have been damaged or severed as seemingly insurmountable tensions boil between Americans who see the war – and those in support of one side or the other – as morally wrong or hostile to their safety and existence.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
Williams currently is on trial with five co-defendants in the case after more than 20 others charged in the indictment either took plea deals or had their cases severed.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
The company has already severed ties with major enterprise software providers like Salesforce and Workday, opting instead to develop its own applications, likely built on OpenAI's infrastructure.
—Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for severed
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Murphy admits the divided board might present a challenge as contentious conversations continue, particularly surrounding a $200 million restructuring plan for the district that involves adding middle schools.Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
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The prospect of divided government could further complicate that fight.Rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
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Learning is divided into grades and separated by age and aptitude.Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
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Students would have sat on the floor rather than at desks and they wouldn’t have been separated by grade and skill level, like today.Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
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There’s also the perpetual maintenance costs and the chance your road map might lead you into the wilderness, disconnected from the tech mainstream.Claus Jepsen, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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President Biden’s position on the dispute has been reflexively pro-union and disconnected from actual events.The Editors, National Review, 3 Oct. 2024
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Feldman’s attorneys said that’s when Wheeler gave him the tools and the two parted ways, but prosecutors said Feldman got into Wheeler’s Honda Accord, leaving his own phone behind in his car.Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024
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Though she's been wearing the cut air-dried, this sleek and parted style is easy and occasion-ready.Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2023
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The two take the reins of the company as its corporate parent splits itself in two, keeping the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, the Bravo cable network, theme parks and movie operations in one entity and a passel of cable networks and digital properties in the other.Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
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The adaptation of García Márquez’s classic novel will be split across two eight-episode seasons and the new video reveals more about the series, one of the biggest ever out of Latin America.Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
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Both Trump and Harris are tapping into a long, if discontinuous, tradition across America’s history of government investments working alongside private industry to spur innovation and economic development.Steven Tian, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
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Black artists, of course, experienced those changes and more, which is reflected in work featuring broken narratives, discontinuous lives, and a ceaseless groping for novel visual vocabularies.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
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“Severed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/severed. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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