How to Use divest in a Sentence

divest

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  • We may have to divest assets to raise capital.
  • The company is divesting 8 of its 20 stores.
  • Dearborn moves to divest from Israel amid conflict in Gaza and Lebanon.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Mario Batali was forced to divest from his own restaurants after alleged misconduct.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 15 June 2021
  • Investors already holding shares in the 59 companies listed have one year to divest from them.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 June 2021
  • Harvard’s refusal to divest its endowment from fossil fuels continues to draw scorn from across the country.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 21 July 2021
  • The agency is seeking to force Altria to divest its stake and terminate the companies’ noncompete agreement.
    — Jennifer Maloney, WSJ, 2 June 2021
  • The billdirects state officials not to invest in any company in the oil, gas, or coal industries, with some short-term exceptions, and to divest any existing fossil fuel holdings.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2021
  • For instance, Texas legislators have advanced a bill aimed at forcing state funds to divest from investment funds that discriminate against fossil fuels.
    — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 3 July 2021
  • Under the agreement to end a protracted dispute, CAA and other agencies agreed to divest or limit their holdings in production firms.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2021
  • The Gatorland board and McHugh divested from the farm in 1998.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2024
  • What’s the deal with straight men divesting from the discourse?
    — Hazlitt, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Back in 2006, one attendee at the AGM called on the company to divest the club.
    — Tim Loh / Bloomberg, TIME, 17 May 2024
  • Why would Kroger buy and then divest so many stores in Arizona?
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
  • Do their shifts make the time right to divest non-core businesses?
    — Kristen Groh, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2022
  • At one point, the state tried to divest the park in 1992 to save on rent, and Wilfert ended up leasing the land and running it himself.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Comcast is on track to divest its one-third stake in the latter, which is controlled by Disney, in 2024.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Under the law, TikTok has roughly nine months to divest from ByteDance.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 May 2024
  • The city bought the property when Gaston was in the process of divesting his business empire.
    — Joseph D. Bryant | [email protected], al, 26 June 2023
  • The suit seeks to break up Google's ad business, forcing the company to divest from key ad products.
    — Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2023
  • In June, 7-Eleven and Marathon reached an agreement with the commission to divest hundreds of stores as part of a settlement.
    — Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The protesters asked the university to divest from Israel and call for a cease-fire.
    — Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2024
  • The two of them had harbored vague desires since the beginning of Buy Nothing to divest themselves of Facebook.
    — WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Mind you, this is the same company that is being pushed by the US government to divest or risk getting kicked out of the country.
    — Mia Sato, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2024
  • In 1986, the U.S. joined other of South Africa’s trade partners in passing sanctions, and the movement to divest and boycott the country’s goods and services spread.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • But divesting from the World’s Factory comes with concessions that many aren’t yet willing to make, the group has learned.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Pension funds would have to divest from fossil fuels by 2035.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The store was divested in 2015 by Albertsons in a merger with Safeway.
    — Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Heineken said such hurdles had delayed its efforts to divest.
    — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Rio Tinto divested from the mine in 2016, reportedly leaving an Arabian-horse breeder, a former Australian government minister, and an American investment banker and novelist as its prospective saviors.
    — Sean Williams, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024

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