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In a statement on Tuesday, ZDF told the BBC that Elon Musk had demanded a "cease and desist" declaration, through a German law firm.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

“This is the first page of the cease and desist letter from Swalwell’s team — it has has been shared with permission from the recipient,” she wrote on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

In a statement on Thursday, a gardaí spokesperson said the force was "moving to an enforcement phase" unless those blocking access to critical infrastructure "desist and disperse".

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

The bar claims the firm refused to remove the attorney’s name from its website for years, ignoring a cease and desist letter from McBratney’s new employer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

Nothing made him desist except his own lamentable state of demoralization.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Discovery were the latest studios to send cease and desists letter to ByteDance on Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

“An honest conversation about coal and its miners needs to be had, and we should neither cease or desists from having it.”

From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2017

"I've gotten cease and desists before," he says.

From Time Magazine Archive

“There always wur a path athwert thuck mead in the ould volk’s time” is their one reply endlessly reiterated; and the owner of the property, rather than make himself unpopular, desists from persuasion.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard

Dandy pricks up his ears and wants to neigh, but Ray grips his nostrils like a vice, and Dandy desists.

From Marion's Faith. by King, Charles

Anderson "desisted" when the woman did not say yes and left the bedroom, at which point the complainant heard her vomiting in the bathroom.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

At first, Gilardo sent admonishing messages, but he soon desisted.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2023

The next week, her lawyer sent a letter to BRIC, saying that unless Zahedi desisted from airing any episodes featuring footage of Field or the children, she would “commence legal action.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2019

During that time I’d desisted not only from buying a new wallet but even from cancelling or replacing my credit cards and my driver’s license and my health-insurance card.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018

I should have desisted, I should not have seen what I saw.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

A 2022 study of 317 trans youths discovered that after an average of five years of socially transitioning only 2.5 percent of participants ended up desisting and identifying as cisgender.

From Slate ● May 2, 2023

Lucy exclaimed, desisting from her occupation of opening books and turning over music; "for you can tell us all about Nola and her love story."

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

Although Radonic had come back, still Vranic, far from desisting from his suit, became always more pressing; for he seemed quite sure that she would never speak to her husband against him.

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by Jones, P.

Mulch and water fruit trees and strawberries in dry weather, desisting when the fruit begins to ripen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

“But for his snorin’, I’d think he wur gone dead,” said Garth, desisting from his attempts to awake him.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne