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Aside from providing some comic relief, Fennell’s revision also fast-tracks the marriage plot that severs Cathy and Heathcliff.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

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

They also point out that relocation severs the deep, centuries-old connection that rural Tibetans share with their land.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2024

This is what severs Oliver's formal relationship with National Review.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2024

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