terminus
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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
By 2011, landfast sea ice in the Larsen B embayment near Hektoria's terminus had expanded enough to provide temporary support, allowing the glacier to slowly advance once again.
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
Clay’s loss in the presidential election of 1844 effectively placed a stop sign at the National Road’s terminus in Springfield, Ohio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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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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
Built as the terminus for the Great Western Railway in 1854, it’s second only to St. Pancras among London termini in terms of heart-lifting delight.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022
That would capture streets around Glasgow’s busiest rail termini: Queen Street and Central stations.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2021
Ossification lengthens the posterior termini of the maxillaries to the posterior edge of the orbit.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
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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