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“We simply ask that the court of public opinion cease to make any assumptions about any person involved until more information is publicly available.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

But instead of expiring on Aug. 31, operations were set to end on Dec. 31, after which a yearlong “drawing down” period will commence—as though it takes 12 months to cease doing nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

He lay down for half an hour, pressed under the fallen tree where he had hidden, to give time for the thing to go right away and for his own heart to cease thundering.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

But once competitors agree on what is “safe enough,” safety ceases to function as a competitive metric.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

Every assignment, he explains, ceases to be an individual endeavor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Hamlet did not contend with me but loosened his embrace, and his ardor cooled like an ember when the wind ceases to blow.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

They noted that a nearby oil rig, Platform Grace, has already ceased operating due to declining production and is now being decommissioned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The author’s fondness for masculine attire and habits—she enjoyed smoking cigars—has never ceased to generate ticklish speculation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Whitney was an obscure analyst of financial firms for an obscure financial firm, Oppenheimer and Co., who, on October 31, 2007, ceased to be obscure.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

"That would be the ideal situation for everybody to have a diplomatic solution which brings Iran around the table, ceasing their nuclear weapon programme," he added.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

Colin spent the next ninety minutes thinking, without ceasing, about a girl he'd known for less than two weeks.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green