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But a curious pattern has emerged in recent years: Multiple major landslides have occurred precisely at the terminus of a retreating glacier.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
The recently shuttered Clifton’s in downtown Los Angeles sits at 7th and Broadway, the original terminus of Route 66.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
In the space of ten years, new railroad lines were laid, track by track, four thousand miles, sprawling east, west, south, and north from the central terminus: Chicago.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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The results indicated random coils with termini lost excitation energy due to defects generated by fluctuations in solution, unlike toroids that were not easily deformed and exhibited fluorescence without energy loss.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
Services will be diverted to other London termini, with passengers being urged to checked before they travel.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023
"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
“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 Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2018
I had anticipated that all ports and railway termini would be watched for a woman of Joyce's age and figure, and we were not allowed to board the tender without a challenge.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna
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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