cease
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“Spending will not cease, but it will become more selective,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 2, 2026
Sanrio said it had "decided to cease this collaboration, as well as all subsequent projects and promotional campaigns".
From Barron's β 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 β Oct. 26, 2026
The BBC said that the network's nightly programme Reporting Scotland: News at Seven will not move to BBC iPlayer and will cease when the linear channel closes.
From BBC β Oct. 20, 2026
And whenever they stopped their chanting Wang Lung poured silver into their hands and they took breath again and chanted and did not cease until dawn rose.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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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 β Oct. 2, 2026
This jackpot portrayal of working motherhood never ceases to be a thrill for me.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 5, 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 β Sep. 4, 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 β Aug. 11, 2026
To extirpate is to exterminate or destroy a living entity or group so completely that it ceases to exist forever.
From "An Indigenous Peopleβs History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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The test of a work of satire is whether its comic force remains after its immediate subject has ceased to be relevant.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 13, 2026
It meant that the internal measure of time ceased advancing when the relevant changes in the system disappeared.
From Science Daily β Oct. 30, 2026
“The outflows ceased when we paused withdrawal service earlier. We are still working with partners to freeze many of the impacted assets, and have frozen around $3 billion thus far,” it said.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 30, 2026
Launched in 1917, it ceased operations in 1992 as a result of prices long driven down by Chinese production.
From Barron's β Oct. 21, 2026
At the same time, those who performed experiments ceased to be lonely and isolated individuals; they became members of an experimental network.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Today, after 31 years, we are saddened to announce that Salon is ceasing publication.
From Salon β Nov. 5, 2026
Yet throughout this expansion into other markets, Barros always emphasized that “adapting doesn’t mean ceasing to be who we are.”
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 4, 2026
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 β Aug. 25, 2026
The U.S. activist investor said key elements of the stand-alone plan included unwinding cross-shareholdings and ceasing overinvestment in the automotive segment.
From The Wall Street Journal β Mar. 2, 2026
I’m ceasing to be interested in games I can’t win.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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