as in farewell
given, taken, or performed at parting
she gave him a parting gift to remember her by
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as in departure
the act or process of two or more persons going off in different directions
although their parting was sad, they knew they would see each other again
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2
as in departing
the act of leaving a place
everyone waved goodbye at his parting
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as in separating
to go or move in different directions from a central point
after traveling together for three weeks, we parted at Rome
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as in exiting
to leave a place often for another
parted with great ceremony but with little preparation for the dangers that lay ahead
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as in dividing
to set or force apart
parted the prongs with pliers
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as in dying
to stop living
before I part, I hope I have the opportunity to say my good-byes
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Recent Examples of parting
Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
In that sense, the 32-year-old’s exit ended up feeling like a mutual parting of the ways.
—Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
Brighton & Hove Albion are poised to name Jason Ayto as sporting director after parting company on Friday with technical director David Weir.
—Andy Naylor, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for parting
Noun
There's a lot of sadness that comes with the parting of certain people.
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According to police, scammers are targeting older Bay Staters with a range of schemes aimed at parting them with their savings, from old-fashioned home improvement fraud to newer scams centered around cryptocurrency.
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Adjective
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The Browns said details about final events and farewell offerings will be shared in the coming weeks.—
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The iconic thrash metal band is releasing its final album later this month and subsequently heading out on a farewell tour.—
Noun
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So many questions remain unanswered about his messy departure from Nottingham Forest in September last year.—
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If time permits, lock your home upon departure and disconnect utilities and appliances.—
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Flights for Los Angeles International Airport were temporarily halted Sunday because of a staffing shortage at the Southern California TRACON, which handles flights arriving or departing.—
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How much of the two presidents Alaskans will be able to see beyond their aircraft arriving and departing is unclear.—
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The backpack itself is crafted from a durable, water-resistant, anti-abrasion material, and includes a wet pocket for separating damp items or dirty laundry.—
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This was such a tedious process that Saint Ignatius College Prep had its own recycling club that mainly involved spending Fridays after school sitting on a classroom floor and separating the recyclables the school had generated throughout the week.—
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While police approached, O’Neil was seen exiting the sporting goods store.—
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Comply with exiting the vehicle if ordered, but do not argue; dispute violations later in court.—
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The debate within the Democratic coalition is already bigger and louder, dividing moderates in swing states from progressives elated by Mamdani's rocket to victory in the nation's largest city.—
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One was a real human blastocysts, which contain about 100 to 200 rapidly dividing cells.—
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As oblivion approached, with all its attendant possibilities of panic or bitterness, Bowie summoned the generosity to evoke the ordeal of one prematurely dying man while also thinking and creating at the no less vast scale of life itself.—
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Since the late 1980s, newspapers like the Press and the Post-Gazette have been dying a slow death with loss of circulation and advertising revenue that's all but disappeared since the birth of the internet.—
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As time passed, Webster found his views diverging from some of his neighbors’ in the Hudson Valley.—
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Emo was diverging into the pop world in every way imaginable.—
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“Parting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parting. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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