How to Use divestiture in a Sentence

divestiture

noun
  • Divestitures are used to break up monopolies.
  • Before divestiture, the telephone company monopolized the state.
  • The divestiture law has faced resentment from both sides of the aisle.
    — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Pai's statement did not say which station divestitures would break the law.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 16 July 2018
  • Whether more divestitures could again prove to be the spark eBay needs remains to be seen.
    — Laura Forman, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2019
  • To be sure, some of these divestitures and breakups follow deals that seem to have been ill-advised from the start.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Net sales were down about 12% from the same time last year, due to the divestiture of certain pet food brands.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023
  • But selling off the business, known as a divestiture, might not be enough, the memo acknowledges.
    — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Critics argue that the aim is to make divestiture more difficult.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The companies would aim to close the deal within six months and expect to make no divestitures, the person said.
    — Jonathan Roeder and Craig Giammona / Bloomberg, Time, 27 Aug. 2019
  • After the divestitures of six stations, the reach will be a bit less but still unprecedented in scale.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The states will push for a full divestiture of Ticketmaster.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Affected companies must sell any such apps through a divestiture process outlined in the ban, or face stiff fines.
    — Samantha Riedel, Them, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Wright wants to keep in operation if the government forces this mass divestiture.
    — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The largest divestiture this year is an $11 billion deal to sell its locomotive unit.
    — Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 25 June 2018
  • Duffy, the Justice Department lawyer, tried to close the door on more divestitures.
    — Michael Casey, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The loss was tied to the divestiture of certain life-insurance businesses.
    — Leslie Scism, WSJ, 4 May 2022
  • Partners and divestitures have been talked about before, but the language used today was a bit more emphatic than in the past.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The divestiture bill is not the only one to appear on Beacon Hill this session.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
  • The move came around the time that rumors swirled that the company was considering divestitures.
    — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • This divestiture is part of a strategic shift to focus on AI solutions.
    — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2025
  • It's been a multiple-step process, including spin-offs and divestitures, over the past three years of Kapur at the helm.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 4 June 2026
  • Among the half below the threshold, the FTC required just three divestitures.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 19 June 2019
  • This is of a piece with federal efforts to force a Meta divestiture of Instagram.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The soap-making operation was the last of the big divestitures at the facility.
    — Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The divestiture proposal will be filed in federal court and opened to public comment for 60 days.
    — Marcy Gordon, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2018
  • There needs to be a sale, a full divestiture from the Chinese Communist Party.
    — NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Without the divestiture, the broadcast giant would have owned more than 200 stations across the country.
    — Alexandria Burris, Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Hasbro swung to a profit in the second quarter as revenue fell 18 percent due to the divestiture of eOne.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 July 2024
  • But a flashy divestiture or acquisition might not be the solution to a food conglomerate’s woes — or a surefire way to lift the stock price.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2026

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