cease
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The plaintiffs are asking that Suno be ordered to cease using the artists’ identities and are seeking unspecified damages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
They say without an agreement, dams on the river that are used to generate hydropower could cease to function.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Last month, Dawn Buckingham, who leads the General Land Office, sent a cease and desist letter to CBP and a federal contractor she said had illegally cleared GLO-owned land in Presidio County.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Last week's appeals court decision does not take effect until 21 August, when ballroom construction will have to cease unless the Supreme Court grants the emergency application.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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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
They have more than 180 varieties in their catalogue, but several hundred more in development, because the demand for novelty and development never ceases.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
The Commander opens his eyes, notices, frowns, ceases to notice.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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Some trucking companies have ceased doing business, and many more will likely fail if high fuel costs do not subside soon.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Facing the sea, Havana's famous Malecon seawall has ceased to be a promenade for tourists or lovers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Coughlans Bakery, which had shops in Kent, Surrey, West Sussex and south London, announced it had ceased trading in June, blaming high business rates and increases in employers' national insurance contributions.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The duo studied dusty LPs from Mexico and Colombia and employed a panoply of vintage keyboards to re-create the ghostly sounds of a Latin America that ceased to exist decades ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Slowly, one after the other, the sounds ceased.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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
Samsung Electronics is ceasing sales of televisions and home appliances in China due to fierce competition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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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