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terminate

[tur-muh-neyt] / ˈtɜr məˌneɪt /


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Arm sought to terminate Qualcomm’s architecture license and litigated to stop the company from selling chips built around technology acquired from a fellow licensee, Nuvia, which specializes in data-center chips.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

The swift recovery allowed the company to quickly terminate third-party legal and accounting support, often a significant part of the costs, according to Goetter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

She said, come Friday afternoon, she would have to terminate the staff working on the program that they’d spent 20 years developing.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

“You may incur substantial fees if you terminate your lease before the end of your initial lease term,” Apple said in its press release.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

If we became free of disease, we would make a much better run of it for the last decade or so, but might still terminate on about the same schedule as now.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

Meta is also on the hook with its promise to pay back investors in the Hyperion joint venture if it terminates its leases early.

From MarketWatch Nov. 8, 2025

Due to planned rail works, the cross border route to Dublin terminates at Drogheda with a bus replacement taking passengers the rest of the journey.

From BBC Jan. 26, 2025

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

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

When asked whether the program has been terminated, EPA officials said simply that the committee’s charter expired on June 5, 2025.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

The 06:11 departure from London Euston on Friday, which was affected, ran with a 58-minute delay and terminated at Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

Plagiarism claims against Arday were first made in July by Nathan Cofnas, a US academic and self-defined "race realist" whose research affiliation with a Cambridge college was terminated in 2024 amid racism accusations.

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Pricing disputes have delayed or terminated many secondary private-credit transactions in recent months because some firms are unable to reconcile disparate numbers, according to executives overseeing similar secondary deals.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Blossom’s musical education was terminated then and there.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

According to Trauben, Rancho Humilde and Fuerza Regida, both parties entered a completely new agreement in 2022 that fundamentally restructured their entire business relationship, fully terminating the initial 2018 contract in place.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

In focusing on elective abortion procedures, the court didn’t address all procedures for terminating a pregnancy.

From Slate Jun. 16, 2026

Just before Christmas 1970, Miller abruptly cut the state’s welfare rolls by roughly 75%, terminating aid to some 3,500 families without holding mandated hearings.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

In the letter terminating Pelley's contract on Tuesday, Bilton accused him of hijacking the staff meeting to disparage Bilton, his qualificatons and intentions with "remarkable incivility and contempt".

From BBC Jun. 3, 2026

A shout of laughter greeted his entrance; noisy at first, and terminating in Grace Poole’s own goblin ha! ha!

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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