- present participle of part.
parting
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What changed everything was his remarkable progress in the early laps of the race, which brought to mind another Biblical miracle, the parting of the Red Sea.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
The movie ends with Hana and Kip parting because his job takes him to other areas of the country.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
His parting gift was a silver medal, a handshake from President Trump and a hug from the King of Spain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
After parting ways with Wilde, I drove 50 miles to meet Steven Weinberg, an artist and the author of “The Fly Fishing Book,” a whimsically illustrated guide to the sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
She’d agreed to come here and offer parting rites for Sahel, as Gede custom called for, but the thought of getting any closer to the corpse unnerved her.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
I now hope that cross-species friendships of such intensity do not end in permanent partings.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2022
In what has to be one of the most inevitable partings of the Premier League era, Steve Bruce lasted just 13 days after the Saudi Arabian-backed £305m takeover of the club.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2021
Wide-leg trousers, berets, high necklines and centre partings.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2019
Its story, held between the arbitrary-seeming brackets of electoral victory and pop-star overdose, is inchoate, and beguilingly so: a series of meetings and partings, a fluctuation of perceptions, emotions, and desires.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 24, 2018
Our lives are composed of meetings and partings, with brief, bright acquaintances in-between.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
