cease
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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
Syngenta said it would pay back the Scottish Enterprise funding in full if operations cease at the site.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
“We simply ask that the court of public opinion cease to make any assumptions about any person involved until more information is publicly available.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
While the measure doesn’t entail the permanent closing-off of the Brazilian market, operators will likely have to cease their operations in the meantime, they said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
My blood ran so cold, it seemed to cease pumping through me altogether.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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MS ceases coverage of Hipages with an equal-weight recommendation on the stock, cutting target price by 3.8% to 0.75 Australian dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
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
She does not bathe, does not warm herself by the kitchen fire, ceases to ask if she can go outdoors.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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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
Back home, communication between Anojan and his family has completely ceased.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Even during his incarceration, the former food chemist never ceased his political activity on social media, particularly on his YouTube channel, which has 162,000 subscribers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Few organizations had imagined the destruction of an entire financial district, the loss of personnel, technology, communications and records, and the need to preserve public confidence while much of the city’s infrastructure had ceased functioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
It bubbled, and then it ceased bubbling, and both of them sipped it and laughed, and each of the brothers found the verse and the poetry inside himself that he had never let out.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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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
Ugo Vallauri, co-director of the Restart Project, which encourages repair of electronics, said manufacturers' promises of newer devices offering better performance, when ceasing support for older products, has been seen before.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
The noise built to a deafening crescendo before ceasing abruptly.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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