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as in dumping
to end a usually intimate relationship with
ditched his wife for a woman 30 years his junior
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as in discarding
to get rid of as useless or unwanted
we ditched the old table at the town dump
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Recent Examples of ditching
But yesterday, Rihanna did a sartorial 180, ditching her tomboyish ’fit for a girly, baby pink look.
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Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
While some people may experience fleeting sugar and caffeine withdrawal symptoms, ditching soda from your diet can lead to a host of long-term health benefits.
—Sarah Garone, Health, 4 Sep. 2025
The cinematic ends with Bond ditching her cover as a chauffeur to track a blonde man dressed as a bellhop who’s just dumped a body.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Those agreements provide a significant source of revenue for Google and broad access to its services, although the company had proposed ditching those contracts as a potential remedy in the case.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Nearly every major automaker is ditching the Combined Charging System’s Combo Plugs to switch its models to a Tesla-style plug over the next few years.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2025
This season, Nissan is ditching the mansion and sending its Heisman winners on a cross-country trip featuring its latest vehicles.
—Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
In summary—for late summer of fall travel, consider staying in any region for longer than a weekend, asking locals where to dine, ditching guidebooks and internet lists, exploring the countryside outside cities and waking up early to foray.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Earlier this week, Anne Hathaway was spotted ditching restrictive denim in favor of roomy white palazzo pants while on the set of The Devil Wears Prada 2 — just weeks after Meryl Streep did the same while walking around New York City.
—Averi Baudler, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2025
While some people may experience fleeting sugar and caffeine withdrawal symptoms, ditching soda from your diet can lead to a host of long-term health benefits.
—Sarah Garone, Health, 4 Sep. 2025
The cinematic ends with Bond ditching her cover as a chauffeur to track a blonde man dressed as a bellhop who’s just dumped a body.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Those agreements provide a significant source of revenue for Google and broad access to its services, although the company had proposed ditching those contracts as a potential remedy in the case.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Nearly every major automaker is ditching the Combined Charging System’s Combo Plugs to switch its models to a Tesla-style plug over the next few years.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2025
This season, Nissan is ditching the mansion and sending its Heisman winners on a cross-country trip featuring its latest vehicles.
—Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
In summary—for late summer of fall travel, consider staying in any region for longer than a weekend, asking locals where to dine, ditching guidebooks and internet lists, exploring the countryside outside cities and waking up early to foray.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Earlier this week, Anne Hathaway was spotted ditching restrictive denim in favor of roomy white palazzo pants while on the set of The Devil Wears Prada 2 — just weeks after Meryl Streep did the same while walking around New York City.
—Averi Baudler, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ditching
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However, salary-dumping Drummond wouldn't come without risk for the Sixers.—
Bryan Toporek,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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In an interview, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava noted that dumping dogs is a top complaint in the agricultural area of South Miami-Dade known as Redland.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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The reason for the debris is not that people are discarding the cookies but, rather, the way they’re sold.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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These layers are then reorganized into tensor networks, which retain the most important patterns in the layer’s weights while discarding redundant information that isn’t contributing much to overall performance.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 Sep. 2025
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The world might end up ruled by large technology companies that impose their solutions throughout entire continents, leaving little space for homegrown creativity.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Many travelers like to take that whole week off, leaving the weekend before Christmas.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Some overseas investors have also been unloading government bonds and rotating into Japanese equities , driving its stock markets to fresh highs, analysts who spoke to CNBC noted.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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The Twins were holding a historic fire sale, unloading 11 players on or just before deadline day.—
Jon Vankin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Aug. 2025
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The 74-year-old François Bayrou resigns on Tuesday after choosing to gamble his political survival on a confidence vote a day earlier—and losing it by a huge margin.—
Cole Stangler,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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Since then, Cracker Barrel has become a cookie-cutter corporate chain, steadily losing its Southern flavor.—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Sep. 2025
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Companies that committed to DEI efforts and made public statements are now pulling back from those policies, editing their websites, disbanding employee resource groups, and quietly abandoning inclusive hiring goals.—
C200,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Importantly, the company is also abandoning its plan to build a competitor to the cellular Starlink service.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Ditching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ditching. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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