terminus
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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
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
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
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
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
At Boma and at Leopoldsville, the two termini of the projected line, cities are rising, with stations, wharves and public buildings.
From The Crime of the Congo by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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 Trevena, John
Neither was Julesburg, or Sidney, or Cheyenne, when they was terminuses.
From Desert Dust by Shepherd, J. Clinton
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