terminus
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At a university graduation last year, several Waymo vehicles got lost at the terminus of a dead-end road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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 project would add nine stations, plus a terminus station at the Hollywood Bowl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
For this reason, it has grown into an important oil-loading and ship fuel-supplying hub and is the terminus for the Abu Dhabi crude oil pipeline.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
Its northern terminus is the city of Chicago.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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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
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
"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
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
This sense of direction was transmitted to Matthew, who when one of the big London termini had to be enlarged trebled his fortune at a stroke.
From Rich Relatives by MacKenzie, Compton
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 Shepherd, J. Clinton
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
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