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parting

[pahr-ting] / ˈpɑr tɪŋ /




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Given his past behavior, he sounds like the type of guy to leave a curveball in his will, as a parting shot.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

Hollywood star Josh Duhamel may be parting ways with his life in Los Angeles and dedicating himself to living full-time at his off-grid Minnesota cabin after listing his longtime L.A. home for $2.99 million.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Hollywood star Josh Duhamel appears to be parting ways with his life in Los Angeles and dedicating himself to living full-time at his off-grid Minnesota cabin after listing his longtime California home for $2.99 million.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

As the volunteers make their way down stream, gently parting the riverside vegetation looking for signs of water voles, frequent finds are shouted back to Reeves.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

The crowd was parting, and as the movement spread to us we gave way too, to let a tall white man through.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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

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

Her catalog of hairstyles, including Afros and undercuts along with more classically Western fades, lines and partings, was designed for a generation of expressive Britons who refuse to be groomed in a binary fashion.

From New York Times Mar. 20, 2018

Our lives are composed of meetings and partings, with brief, bright acquaintances in-between.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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