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Notice young woman in dark, sharing male ... (9)

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dismissal

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'notice' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'young woman in dark sharing male' is the wordplay.
'young woman' becomes 'miss' (synonyms).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'dark sharing' becomes 'dis' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'male' becomes 'Al' (shortened version of Alex or Alistair).
'dis'+'al'='disal'
'miss' placed into 'disal' is 'DISMISSAL'.

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(Other definitions for dismissal that I've seen before include "Termination of employment" , "removal from office" , "sack" , "Removal from employment" , "Discharge" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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