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Burned out employees work less effectively, the researchers reason, and there are few surer routes to burnout than striving without cease both at work and at home, especially when bringing up kids in the process.

From Quartz

At what point does a netizen's right to privacy and anonymity cease is the crux of the lawsuit brought forth against LiquidVPN.

According to a cease and desist letter Brown sent to Bishop Sycamore in February, YouthBuild informed the state attorney general and the police department of Bishop Sycamore’s “fraudulent” activities.

Egypt helped the United States with backroom diplomacy and brokered the most recent cease fire.

Despite this cease fire unless things change we will see violence break out every few years.

Slowly, slowly, dance classes may cease to be such secret and guilty pleasures in Iran.

While there are a couple of antibiotics that usually work, if they are overused they, too, may cease to be effective.

The liberated soul does not cease to act, to think, to create, to instigate revolutionary flows.

If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

The facts do not cease to matter merely because a white cop killed a black boy.

The bear watched him narrowly with its wicked little eyes, though it did not see fit to cease its paw-licking.

As soon as he had seen his mother, he would set off again, and never cease searching till he had found either Ramona or her grave.

It was a life full of freedom, and I shall never cease to be grateful for it, but I must go home soon and look after my affairs.

He made him like the saints in glory, and magnified him in the fear of his enemies, and with his words he made prodigies to cease.

Industrial society, they say, must be reorganized from top to bottom; private industry must cease.

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On this page you'll find 127 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cease, such as: break off, desist, discontinue, fail, halt, and quit.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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