cease
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But a professional firm will always have a trust manager available to take on the role, and if they cease operations, it would pass to another company.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Wildcats, she says, "never cease to surprise us."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
NYU Langone Health and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center committed to cease providing medical and surgical procedures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“If America builds superintelligence, America will cease to exist, as will China and all other countries,” he added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
I tell my heart to cease its sudden pounding.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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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
There’s music and mocking, teasing nonstop, but when the play begins all the talk ceases.
From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander
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Abroad, it meant travel, the Grand Tour, and a flow of tourist funds to those countries that has never ceased.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
"I couldn't reach her on the phone. Little did I know she ceased to exist the instant that plane hit the building," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
His response seemed to satisfy the hare, who gave a series of quick, small nods, among an assortment of other twitches and jerks that never ceased.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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CoinEx said it was ceasing operations less than three months after a Wall Street Journal article spotlighted its use in Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, told reporters Thursday that the talks starting would be “contingent” upon hostilities ceasing in Lebanon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Toddy didn’t go to school but instead spent his days in a corner of his room, clutching the ragged remnant of an old quilt and rocking himself without ceasing.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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