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cease

[sees] / sis /


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Sanrio said it had "decided to cease this collaboration, as well as all subsequent projects and promotional campaigns".

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

It’s a film that knows yearning doesn’t cease no matter how long we live, and that it’s all too easy to let fear complicate what should be easy.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Multiple Sundial staff members quit in protest, while some circulated a petition calling for the publication to cease operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

With defenders following individual opponents, the free player can cease to exist altogether.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

If they reprogram me, I cease to exist.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Martínez Celaya added that he is particularly intrigued with the gray zone where “childhood ceases to be, and adulthood hasn’t come yet.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Dostoevsky follows the narrator over four nights and a morning during which he ceases living in his imagination and embraces reality for the first time.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Yet the drag on the bottom line ceases after chips are fully depreciated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Researchers refer to this phenomenon as Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

In the same way, if we destroy an enzyme that functions at any point in the cycle, oxidation ceases.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

It meant that the internal measure of time ceased advancing when the relevant changes in the system disappeared.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

However, Newton’s property management company claimed in court documents that Jackson ceased paying rent on the dwelling and owed 11 months in back rent by the time the case was heard in court.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

Now, it has ceased operations to make way for development.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

A spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told reporters in August that Mojave’s work ceased because it had completed its contract.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

He was happy when the glare of the winter light ceased to pierce the broken shade of the kitchen window; it interfered with his thinking.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Ferguson’s Law states that “any great power that spends more on debt servicing than on defense risks ceasing to be a great power.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Given all that, I was somewhat surprised to see heartfelt eulogies for the mail-order racket when Columbia House announced it was ceasing operations later this year.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

OnPoint Logistics will be ceasing operations at its San Francisco location and cutting 96 jobs, according to a government filing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

A #SaveDenby campaign encouraging people to buy more products was launched, but administrators said they failed to find a buyer, leading to production ceasing.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

Although the old man talked for seven hours almost without ceasing, Colin's world felt eerily quiet until he finally gave in as they left the old man's house to go pick up Lindsey.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green


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