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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

Party officers were expected to consider whether to withdraw the deputy first minister or cease official engagements with O'Neill, sources told the BBC's Nolan Live programme.

From BBC ● 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

"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

In early 2003 one of them had proposed that they cease to be intellectuals and form a little group that he, the intellectual, would manage—a fact that the traders would quickly forget.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

This jackpot portrayal of working motherhood never ceases to be a thrill for me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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 ● 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

Their duties are terminated, and their pay ceases.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

When it was over, he said, weighing in his hand the purse he had ceased to swing:—

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

“That is impossible. Do you think I work without ceasing, like some god? I am an old man. I rest my weary bones at night.”

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw


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