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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

In a statement on Tuesday, ZDF told the BBC that Elon Musk had demanded a "cease and desist" declaration, through a German law firm.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

The bar says the firm refused to remove McBratney’s name from its website for years despite a cease and desist letter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

He was given a cease and desist notice and details about previous court cases which had seen defendants receiving custodial sentences.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

One day he lit into Vanguard’s index funds and almost instantly received a cease and desist order from Vanguard’s attorneys.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Discovery were the latest studios to send cease and desists letter to ByteDance on Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

“An honest conversation about coal and its miners needs to be had, and we should neither cease or desists from having it.”

From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2017

"I've gotten cease and desists before," he says.

From Time Magazine Archive

This evidence of brotherly love stands me off, an' for Tom's sake I desists an' throws Jerry loose.

From Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis

For he is an enemy that never desists nor becomes tired, so that when one temptation ceases, there always arise others and fresh ones.

From Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Anderson "desisted" when the woman did not say yes and left the bedroom, at which point the complainant heard her vomiting in the bathroom.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

This inaugural episode was met with a cease-and-desist letter from Fox News, and while Carlson neither ceased nor desisted, it ultimately didn’t matter, because “Tucker on Twitter” did not sustain its initial momentum.

From Slate ● May 17, 2024

The next week, her lawyer sent a letter to BRIC, saying that unless Zahedi desisted from airing any episodes featuring footage of Field or the children, she would “commence legal action.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2019

Little by little, the drummers desisted, and one by one the players disassembled the performance.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 31, 2014

She saw the terrible agony and the lips tightened down to hold back the cry and desisted.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

A 2022 study of 317 trans youths discovered that after an average of five years of socially transitioning only 2.5 percent of participants ended up desisting and identifying as cisgender.

From Slate ● May 2, 2023

“This here’s the man you want to meet, I guess,” panted the old woman, desisting at length in her use of the poker.

From Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point Nita, the Girl Castaway by Alice B. Emerson

‘We do nothing so useful or profitable,’ sighed poor Owen, striving to pull himself up by the table, but desisting on finding that it was more likely to overbalance than to be a support. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge

"Oh—" she cried, desisting, "to think of you, helpless all this time, and in the hands of that woman—!"

From Barnaby A Novel by R. Ramsay

Losses on both sides were heavy, especially so on the Turkish side, which hurled attack after attack against the Russian positions, not desisting until nightfall.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill