cease
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“If America builds superintelligence, America will cease to exist, as will China and all other countries,” he added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The plaintiffs are asking that Suno be ordered to cease using the artists’ identities and are seeking unspecified damages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Mladenov acknowledged that Hamas too had yet to meet fully its commitment to cease all military activities.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Last month, Dawn Buckingham, who leads the General Land Office, sent a cease and desist letter to CBP and a federal contractor she said had illegally cleared GLO-owned land in Presidio County.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
I cease walking and count to ten before moving again.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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But once competitors agree on what is “safe enough,” safety ceases to function as a competitive metric.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Dostoevsky follows the narrator over four nights and a morning during which he ceases living in his imagination and embraces reality for the first time.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Researchers refer to this phenomenon as Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Every assignment, he explains, ceases to be an individual endeavor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
She does not bathe, does not warm herself by the kitchen fire, ceases to ask if she can go outdoors.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Abroad, it meant travel, the Grand Tour, and a flow of tourist funds to those countries that has never ceased.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Some trucking companies have ceased doing business, and many more will likely fail if high fuel costs do not subside soon.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Facing the sea, Havana's famous Malecon seawall has ceased to be a promenade for tourists or lovers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Coughlans Bakery, which had shops in Kent, Surrey, West Sussex and south London, announced it had ceased trading in June, blaming high business rates and increases in employers' national insurance contributions.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Whitney was an obscure analyst of financial firms for an obscure financial firm, Oppenheimer and Co., who, on October 31, 2007, ceased to be obscure.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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CoinEx said it was ceasing operations less than three months after a Wall Street Journal article spotlighted its use in Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Ferguson’s Law states that “any great power that spends more on debt servicing than on defense risks ceasing to be a great power.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Given all that, I was somewhat surprised to see heartfelt eulogies for the mail-order racket when Columbia House announced it was ceasing operations later this year.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
OnPoint Logistics will be ceasing operations at its San Francisco location and cutting 96 jobs, according to a government filing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
“Perhaps the smallest sip from the kettle Odrerir would give me the lyrical skills to conjure your beauty for generations still to come,” he suggested, his sobs ceasing.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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