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cease

[sees] / sis /


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“Spending will not cease, but it will become more selective,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 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

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

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

"These provocative attacks, which threaten Saudi Arabia's sovereignty and security and target the sacred values of the Islamic world, must cease immediately and unconditionally."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Things become quieter, but the cries do not cease.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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

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

Every assignment, he explains, ceases to be an individual endeavor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

“It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.”

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

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

From Science Daily ● 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 ● Oct. 30, 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

Typically, revenue would decline in subsequent syndication cycles after the show ceased production and public interest waned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Looking in his refrigerator—the compressor had long since ceased working—he found a dubious cube of margarine.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

The Saudi PIF spent an estimated $5 billion to $6 billion on LIV Golf in less than five years of operations before ceasing financing in April.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 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 ● 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

Samsung Electronics is ceasing sales of televisions and home appliances in China due to fierce competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy


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