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Its foreign minister Mohamad Hasan has ruled out lodging a formal diplomatic protest with Indonesia or taking legal action, saying such actions "would mean we were prepared to sever relations".

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Ethiopia expelled 10 Eritrean diplomats and shut its embassy in Asmara on Thursday, while Eritrea responded that it would "sever all diplomatic ties".

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

U.S. authorities and FATF, which can each effectively sever Mexico’s banks from their global counterparts, have criticized Mexico’s low money-laundering conviction numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

This can include convincing them to distrust exactly the people — friends, family, financial advisers — who might warn them to sever contact with suspicious actors.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

His gold blade cut through the tendrils with no problem, but faster than he could sever them, more took their place.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

For LGBTQ+ Christians, it can be a spiritual one, a forced concealment that severs them from authentic relationships with communities they love and were raised in, and with God.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

“If this — the charter ... is not renewed, then that pretty much severs their multiyear agreement,” Rivas said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

Flipping the script, Rapp severs ties with a friend when the temptation to stray becomes too strong on the melancholy ballad I Can't Have You Around Me.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025

It follows workers at a megacorporation who submit to a procedure that severs their work memories from their personal ones, and it gets wildly weird.

From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2025

In the Greek myth of Prometheus the gift of fire forever severs humankind from the natural world—the burning torch is the icon of the constructed and artificial.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

One example is a DNA double-strand break, which occurs when both strands of the DNA molecule are severed.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Chinese brands Dongpeng and Mengniu Dairy quickly severed ties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The Hall of Famer’s ties with Chicago were once again severed, this time with his firing in 1993 following a 5-11 season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Ethiopia accuses Eritrea of backing rebels in its northern Tigray state, and the two countries severed diplomatic ties last week.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Then another mutation severed this last connecting thread, and they went their separate evolutionary ways.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

"It writes without fully severing the DNA, keeps recording relatively steadily, and writes everything in strict order, so we can record cell lineages at much higher resolution for a longer time."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Shopping centres close and above-ground metro stations suspend operations, often severing public transport links between Kyiv's Left and Right Banks, on either side of the Dnieper River, for hours at a time.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

She also knows that under the terms of the merger the cost of severing Wiatt would be $20 million, plus an additional $4 million if it happens before a certain date.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The relief that came with the decision to finally let go was completely dwarfed by the immense pain of severing a family in two.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

The silk sheets, clenched in Ruby’s fists, burst into flame, and an instant later the cloud burst forth rain, severing the dove-and-violin sigh and dousing her before the rest of her bonfire could kindle.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor