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terminus

[tur-muh-nuhs] / ˈtɜr mə nəs /


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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

They would remain there, amid the dunes and dappled sunlight of Cape Cod’s hooked terminus, until Cook’s death in 2004.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

They are Dover's ferry port, Eurotunnel's Folkestone terminal, and Eurostar's St Pancras rail terminus.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 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

But the actual beach, the one he and the corporals gazed on now, was no more than a variation on all that had gone before: there was a rout, and this was its terminus.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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

"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

Images of thousands of rail passengers either stranded outside central London or facing endless queues at mainline termini, after engineering works overran, are met with dismay.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2014

In like manner, a fair proportion of Oxford and Cambridge graduates now pass the greater portion of their lives in hurrying to catch trains from their academic termini to scenes of provincial activity.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott

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

Neither was Julesburg, or Sidney, or Cheyenne, when they was terminuses.

From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd

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


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