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  • present participle of part.
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parting

[pahr-ting] / ˈpɑr tɪŋ /




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The 25-year-old point guard, who spent six seasons with the Hornets before joining Minnesota in July, is parting ways with his sprawling four-bedroom condo in one of Uptown Charlotte’s most exclusive residential buildings.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

On the morning Holmes is due to report to prison, Fielder arrives with a parting gag gift: hair dye and glasses, in case she’d prefer to disguise herself and flee the country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

Then there was the mystery about why the $52 billion defense contractor was parting ways with the veteran defense executive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 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

No matter how long a driver and race engineer have worked together, and how close they become, those partings of ways are inevitable in Formula 1.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2024

I now hope that cross-species friendships of such intensity do not end in permanent partings.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 4, 2022

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

The neat partings in their hair, the clicks of their heels, the confident swagger they had.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler


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