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The war has severed key logistics routes, scared away tourists from cities like Dubai and dramatically reduced air traffic throughout the region.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The cash promise is doubly confrontational for the IOC, which has severed ties with the International Boxing Association and does not approve of governing bodies paying prize money to Olympic medalists.

From Seattle Times • May 29, 2024

An NBC News spokesperson said in a statement that it has severed ties with Ms. Al-Azza, adding that she began working for the network after the Oct.

From Washington Times • Nov. 20, 2023

The Hermitage Amsterdam museum, founded in 2009 as a satellite of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, has severed ties with its mother ship.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023

Such peculiar devotion to one object is only permitted to those whom God has severed from their kind, and marked out, as it were, for the generous career.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various