How to Use divest in a Sentence

divest

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  • Why would Kroger buy and then divest so many stores in Arizona?
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
  • Forcing TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner is a good first step.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2024
  • That demand is a notable step down from protesters' calls over the last two weeks for the school's foundation to divest from companies tied to Israel.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 14 May 2024
  • The protesters have called for the university to divest from Israel, which university regents oppose.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 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
  • Do their shifts make the time right to divest non-core businesses?
    — Kristen Groh, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The city bought the property when Gaston was in the process of divesting his business empire.
    — Joseph D. Bryant | Jbryant@al.com, 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
  • The two of them had harbored vague desires since the beginning of Buy Nothing to divest themselves of Facebook.
    — WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Barretts, which has two mines in Montana, was divested by Pfizer in 1992.
    — Becky Yerak, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Illumina will divest Grail by the end of this year’s second quarter.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Both studios could fully divest the network over time, sources say.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The companies’ haven’t said which 13 Idaho stores would be divested.
    — David Staats, Idaho Statesman, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Griffin said the company has about two years to divest its stake in Arkansas land before the state will force a change in ownership.
    — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
  • That law prompted Yee to divest about $143 million of state funds from a popular ice cream company.
    — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Advocates have pushed for the University of California system, one of the largest in the country, to divest from guns for years.
    — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Companies would have 165 days to divest their apps before being removed from US app stores.
    — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Divest When a practice is not paying off, successful leaders know when and how to divest from it, Alli said.
    — Carmela Chirinos, Fortune, 26 May 2022
  • The deal would allow Kroger and Albertsons to divest as many as 650 stores if regulators wanted.
    — Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 15 Jan. 2024
  • And if the bill becomes law, the question remains whether an American buyer would step in to save the day (if ByteDance is willing to divest the popular platform).
    — Clare Duffy, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • To date, the government has not received any requests from Resorts World Sentosa to divest or change ownership, the spokesperson said.
    — Vinicy Chan, Bloomberg.com, 14 July 2022
  • But his recent bets on oil companies are contrarian in a new way, doubling down on fossil fuels when the rest of the world is trying to divest from it.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 11 July 2022
  • House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly this month to force ByteDance to divest the app, but the Senate has yet to take up the legislation.
    — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • At Columbia on Friday, hundreds of students gathered around 1 p.m. to encourage the school to divest from Israel and speak out against the killings of Palestinians.
    — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Back then, the demands from antiwar protesters were nearly identical to the calls echoing through college campuses today: To divest from weapons manufacturing and end on-campus recruitment by military companies.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2024

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