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demotion

noun

as in firing

the act or an instance of bringing to a lower grade or rank anyone who objects will get a demotion

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Recent Examples of demotion Every offensive player must wear coordinator Davis Webb’s demotion. — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2026 Webb is keeping his title as offensive coordinator and continues his work during the week, but this is a demotion in job duties. — Jonathan Jones, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2026 However, Harvey said, such a demotion must be carefully implemented so as not to inadvertently punish Championship League teams investing the right way in the hopes of making the top flight. — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Discharge, suspension, demotion, and reductions in pay or hours are among the actions that can fall within that framework. — William Jones, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026 McCoy’s lawsuit alleges that her demotion was in violation of Missouri’s whistleblower statute, which allows public employees to sue for unlawful retaliation after reporting violations of law. — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026 The outcome of the investigation, Balon said, resulted in the officer receiving a demotion in rank, an unpaid suspension, an indefinite suspension from the use of Flock and remedial ethics training. — Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026 Now, in 2026, some still can't get over Pluto's demotion to a dwarf planet. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 Astronomers in favor of Pluto's demotion argued that a planet by definition should have cleared its orbit around the sun. — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 24 Aug. 2026

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Things certainly aren’t going well when your defensive coordinator’s name is emblazoned across bedsheets hanging from your school’s fraternity windows, calling for his firing.

— Noah White, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2026
Fear and loathing are running high as Hollywood processes Thursday’s shock firing of Bela Bajaria from her post as Netflix chief content officer.

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of firing

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His lawyers, making the motion for dismissal, argued that Kuznietsov was still an active duty soldier and as such was obligated by Ukrainian law not to speak for reasons of secrecy linked to national security.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
Even if Chili’s dismissal is unrelated, an ex-employee is a good place to start.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of dismissal

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On winding roads, its model-specific suspension tuning and focus on weight reduction translate into exceptional body control at speed without becoming brittle or overly rigid in slower, more technical sections.

— Bradley Iger, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026
Yet their willingness to talk, listen, and imagine what had seemed impossible helped lay the groundwork for historic nuclear arms reductions.

— Halla Tómasdóttir, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of reduction

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But duration turns the screw—prolonged humiliation or a slow unfolding toward future self-recrimination.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
But whatever Schadenfreude Lamb might be feeling about his rival’s humiliation is checked by concern over how much her operation has compromised his agents, past and present.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of humiliation

Noun

Thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets to demand the sacking of Syrskyi — an old-guard military commander blamed by his critics for heavy troop losses at the front line — and Fedorov’s reinstatement.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
Liverpool have been without a specialist set-piece coach since the sacking of Aaron Briggs last December.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 24 July 2026

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