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 Rock Hall is set to announce the nominees for the class of 2025 any day now, leaving us to think about the museum's biggest omissions.
    Troy Smith, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Oliver takes cocaine, MDMA, and pills, sexts other women, and threatens suicide if Mallory were to leave him.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The reality is even tighter: House Republicans already have two vacancies, created by former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who resigned at the end of last year, and former Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., who joined the Trump administration as national security advisor.
    Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The documentary also featured Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, and Michael Flynn, who resigned in 2017 over false statements about talks with Russia's ambassador.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Trump is especially bitter that President Carter, in 1977, entered into agreement with Panama to relinquish control of the canal by the year 1999.
    Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Ellis hired his previous CBS Records colleague Gregg Geller, who José promptly put in charge of the Elvis Presley catalog, moving it over from Nashville, where Joe Galante was only too happy to relinquish it after the sales spike from Presley’s death in 1977 had cooled off.
    Roy Trakin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • In many areas — most notably in trade policy, where Trump threatens to inflict a lasting injury on the global economy — the legislature abdicated years ago.
    Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The article explores some potential outcomes: Meta is not entirely abdicating responsibility for what appears on its platforms.
    Natalie Proulx, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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  • White nurses were afraid of the disease, quit, and sought employment elsewhere rather than risk infection.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2025
  • But after having the same tired argument over and over again with no improvements to show for it, Amy decided to call it quits with a text.
    Julia Ries, SELF, 7 Feb. 2025
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