WALK AWAY FROM Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

walk away from

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Definition of walk away from

as in leave

to cause to remain behind She decided to walk away from her job to go back to school.

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Recent Examples of walk away from Quebec’s Premier Christine Fréchette said Carney made the right decision to walk away from the negotiating table. — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026 The film was famously dropped by Amazon MGM Studios, which developed and financed the project, then walked away from distributing the movie after announcing a $50 billion partnership and investment that involved OpenAI. — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026 Even Carney’s political adversaries, who waste no opportunity to criticize the Liberal Party leader, support his walking away from the table. — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026 Rogers was allegedly evasive when asked how his truck had gone off the road and down an embankment and started to walk away from the trooper toward a nearby picnic table with a crossbow and several arrows on it, state police said. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for walk away from

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“Walk away from.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walk%20away%20from. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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