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

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 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

Later this month, LinkedIn is rolling out a feature that lets verified employers sever users’ affiliations with their companies instantly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The U.S. border with Mexico represents a political borderline but it cannot sever many decades of complicated history and culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Now he could no more excise it from his brain cells than he could sever his past from his future.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Adoption should be pursued as a last resort, the government and adoption organisations have told us, because, while it offers stability, it also severs the legal relationship between the child and its birth family forever.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

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

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

When the agency tried to activate a backup fiber optic line, it discovered the cable had been severed during construction in New Jersey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

While that was good for pedestrians, it cut off the White House and symbolically severed it from public access — you could no longer drive by and wave.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

We were a part of the community, not severed from it.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

A shipping disaster in 2021 shows how blocking the strait — and thus severing a link to the Mediterranean Sea — could harm global commerce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 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

The country brings in a lot of rice from India through the United Arab Emirates, which last week said it was severing trade ties with Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

“If you say that, you risk severing your relationship with your parent.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

That seemed to happen without warning now, like severing ties with Rishi had left her emotions raw and vulnerable to the elements.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon