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as in cedes
to give over the legal possession or ownership of
Claire's grandfather agreed to transfer certain stocks to her when she turned 18
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as in transmits
to cause (something) to pass from one to another
they used Morse Code to transfer the message from one ship to another
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as in sends
to cause to go or be taken from one place to another
will have to transfer you from our San Francisco office to our New York headquarters
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as in moves
to change the place or position of
transferred the car keys from my pocket to my purse
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as in leaves
to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of another
before she left the country, she transferred all her record books and important papers to her mother
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as in hands
to shift possession of (something) from one person to another
transferred the ball to the running back
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Recent Examples of transfers
The strategy transfers your pretax or nondeductible IRA funds to a Roth IRA to kickstart future tax-free growth.
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Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
That transfers the risk to a new resident, leaving the community still facing future costly risks.
—Debolina Banerjee, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
Not only that, but writing about it, sharing it with us, also transfers onto Davis the role of gift giver.
—David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025
The internet operates as a global network that transfers information between servers, devices and data centers.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
When a homeowner qualifies for the program, the home transfers hands to Bonus Homes and is converted into an investment property that the company manages.
—Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The engine is mated to a six-speed transmission, which transfers all of that power to the wheels, plus both traction control and a quickshifter are included, which make life easier.
—New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2025
His 1-year-old son, Kasen, has started swinging left-handed, but often transfers objects to his right hand before throwing them.
—Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
The suitcase is a humid environment, and bacteria easily transfers to clean clothes here.
—Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2025
Kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
That transfers the risk to a new resident, leaving the community still facing future costly risks.
—Debolina Banerjee, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
Not only that, but writing about it, sharing it with us, also transfers onto Davis the role of gift giver.
—David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025
The internet operates as a global network that transfers information between servers, devices and data centers.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
When a homeowner qualifies for the program, the home transfers hands to Bonus Homes and is converted into an investment property that the company manages.
—Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The engine is mated to a six-speed transmission, which transfers all of that power to the wheels, plus both traction control and a quickshifter are included, which make life easier.
—New Atlas, 12 Sep. 2025
His 1-year-old son, Kasen, has started swinging left-handed, but often transfers objects to his right hand before throwing them.
—Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
The suitcase is a humid environment, and bacteria easily transfers to clean clothes here.
—Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transfers
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The dramatic imagery memorializes the successful sendoff for Starship V2, which now cedes the spotlight to its even bigger successors.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Hamas asserts control Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has maintained that the war cannot end until Hamas surrenders its weapons and cedes control of Gaza, a demand the fighters have rejected.—
Maayan Lubell,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system is equipment that transmits information about the aircraft's location, speed, altitude and other important flight parameters.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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Once embedded, the sensors feed their data to a roadside measurement unit, which stores and transmits the information for analysis.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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His longtime agent and friend, Steve Caric, often sends clients to him in the winter and early spring for extra work, and Paulsen welcomes them into his home and his brain.—
Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Helen sends him on an off-the-books job to the London Mother House to use his mind-probing powers on Jasper (William Fichtner), a powerful vampire with a personal vendetta against the Talamasca.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 Oct. 2025
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Fans will just have to be patient to see if anything moves forward.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
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If his execution moves forward, Jennings will be the 16th inmate executed in Florida this year, double the state's previous record.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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Supporters call Shalom Wildlife zoo a 'magical place' While some critics say Wisconsin's loose oversight leaves too many gaps, Shalom's supporters see a very different story.—
Quinn Clark,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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That leaves Watson entering the season with uncertainty ahead.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
26 Oct. 2025
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In traditional animation, a director crafts a story at storyboard phase trying to craft their story then hands it over to animation artists.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
11 Oct. 2025
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Some flights in the air were able to land, with assistance from the approach controllers that normally guide planes to the airport, but usually hands them off to the tower for landing.—
Aaron Cooper,
CNN Money,
10 Oct. 2025
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The Barabasi Lab’s Nature 150, for instance, conveys the importance of intellectual influence by creating a galaxy-like network of scientific papers and allowing users to travel through its colorful constellations of nodes and links.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
27 Oct. 2025
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Nkrumah was crucial in jumpstarting the Ghanaian film industry, building a studio to produce work that conveys an Africa that defies the expectations promoted by colonizers.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
25 Oct. 2025
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In particular, fire blight readily spreads from hawthorns to neighboring apples, as well as pear trees, and causes these trees to drop their blossoms, stop fruiting, display wilted stems and leaves, and develop other problems.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Oct. 2025
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Options strategy With an IV Rank of 47%, options prices are moderately elevated, making debit vertical spreads an efficient way to capture upside exposure.—
Tony Zhang,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Transfers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transfers. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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