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What situation might warrant a cease-and-desist letter?

cease

[sees] / sis /


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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

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

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

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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