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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

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

The Treasury last month moved to sever the Emirati branch of a state-owned Egyptian bank from its correspondent accounts at several large U.S. banks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

“Falling asleep might sever the tether,” she said, “and cut the moth loose.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

But Microsoft, Amazon and Google say they already offer solutions that address concerns about digital sovereignty, solutions which store data on severs in the clients' country or region, not in the US.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2025

“It severs key lines of communication and coordination between vulnerable unaccompanied children and the institutions in place to ensure their protection,” she said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 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

You don’t have to think about it; your subconscious will reconnect those severed wires immediately.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

KAMPALA, Uganda—Ethiopia severed diplomatic relations with Eritrea on Thursday, hours after drones attacked targets in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

A technology called Distributed Acoustic Sensing can turn optical fibres into sensors capable of detecting vibrations from ships, anchors or underwater vehicles – potentially identifying threats before a cable is severed.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The eyeball became a severed hand, which flipped over and began to creep along the floor like a crab.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

"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

In response, Eritrea announced late on Thursday that it was severing diplomatic ties with Ethiopia, describing Addis Ababa's decision as "astounding".

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

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

“So you nearly succeeded in severing the child from her dæmon?” said Father MacPhail.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman