terminus
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The port was constructed as the terminus of a planned $25 billion economic corridor, with roads, rail and an oil pipeline linking Lamu to landlocked South Sudan and Ethiopia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
It is now an attraction for visitors to the nearby DMZ separating the two countries, and the line's former terminus -- Wonsan -- lies in North Korea.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
According to the study, Hektoria's terminus remained mostly stable after the sudden retreat, though nearby Green Glacier continued to shrink.
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
Fujairah is the terminus of an oil pipeline that allows the UAE to export without going through Hormuz and has big oil storage facilities.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
The steel ran south and north presumably, springing from some inconceivable source and shooting toward a miraculous terminus.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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As temperatures continue rising around the Antarctic Peninsula, more glaciers are losing their protective ice tongues and becoming tidewater glaciers, meaning their termini rest directly on the seabed.
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
Services will be diverted to other London termini, with passengers being urged to checked before they travel.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023
That would capture streets around Glasgow’s busiest rail termini: Queen Street and Central stations.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2021
"Stations in a Loop or Hyperloop system are small in size and widely distributed in a network — very different from large-station termini considered for train systems," the company spokesman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2018
Business was suspended; trains no longer left the termini; omnibuses, trams, and cabs had ceased running, the horses having been pressed into military service, and those which had not had been killed and eaten.
From The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux
A chain-link fence spanned the terminuses of the complex’s four dead-end streets, behind which lay a dense patch of woods.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2021
It’s also near the terminuses of both the Cascadia Subduction Zone and the San Andreas Fault.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2016
In what should be one of the world's great rail terminuses, the locomotives themselves are hidden further underground.
From BBC ● May 27, 2015
I ha' started from terminuses, and I ha' stopped in 'em, so I knows what I'm telling about.
From A Drake by George! by John Trevena
Neither was Julesburg, or Sidney, or Cheyenne, when they was terminuses.
From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd
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