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terminate

[tur-muh-nayt] / ˈtɜr məˌneɪt /


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Manchester United will not terminate the registration of academy forward JJ Gabriel, 16, meaning he will not be able to leave the club until January, as Barcelona and Paris St-Germain seek to reach an agreement.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

The company’s Claude chatbot has the ability to terminate conversations with abusive users.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Because of both legal and reputational risks, frontier AI providers in the U.S. have incentives to monitor activity, refuse assistance and terminate malicious accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

"We have not and do not terminate any of our employees for raising concerns," the statement said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

That man knew how hard the other armed forces had tried to terminate the Marines Corps, even while we did the hardest jobs on those islands.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

Pyburn, who also went undrafted after playing three years at Florida and his senior year at LSU, can regain his college eligibility if he terminates his contract with the Bucs and repays earnings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Check the conditions of your mother’s timeshare to see if the contract terminates upon her death.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

A potential tenant terminates an agreement to advance up to $150 million for construction costs at Fermi’s Project Matador.

From Barron's ● Dec. 12, 2025

Meta also has provided what is called a residual-value guarantee to cover bondholders for the full amount owed if Meta doesn’t renew its lease or terminates early.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

The route terminates at the city’s southeast border, close to Richard’s house.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

About 4.3 million Medicare beneficiaries — including 3.1 million Medicare Advantage drug plan enrollees and 1.2 million prescription drug plan enrollees — will see their plan terminated at the end of 2026, KFF said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Many beneficiaries, meanwhile, will need to shop for 2027 coverage because their current plans are being terminated.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

He was arrested by the FBI on 9 October and his contract with OpenAI was terminated.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The university terminated Alpha Epsilon Pi in 2015 following violations of campus policy, but the chapter continued to operate unaffiliated with the university.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

As I was getting too big for Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt’s room, my education under that preposterous female terminated.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

“By originating and terminating Orange County Line trains at Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo, Metrolink can maintain a more predictable schedule for customers across the system,” Metrolink said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

In certain ciliates, stop codons have evolved to specify amino acids instead of terminating protein production.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

At an abortion awareness rally in 1969 where women were sharing their experiences of having abortions, Steinem was encouraged to share her own story about terminating a pregnancy.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

There Steinem wrote one of the first mainstream media dispatches from the women’s movement, covering a 1969 abortion speak-out in Greenwich Village, where woman after woman shared stories of terminating pregnancies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

“He’s not, then,” he said, terminating the call; hanging up, he said to Rick, “Polokov didn’t show up for work today. No explanation. What’s he done, officer?”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick


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