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cease

[sees] / sis /


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It’s a film that knows yearning doesn’t cease no matter how long we live, and that it’s all too easy to let fear complicate what should be easy.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

“We simply ask that the court of public opinion cease to make any assumptions about any person involved until more information is publicly available.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

"These provocative attacks, which threaten Saudi Arabia's sovereignty and security and target the sacred values of the Islamic world, must cease immediately and unconditionally."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Hundreds of jobs are under threat in Grangemouth after an agricultural chemical firm announced plans to cease operations at the site.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Then after a week or two the women usually begin to talk, very softly but without cease, until they’ve finished the accounting of places and people they’ve lost.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

This jackpot portrayal of working motherhood never ceases to be a thrill for me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 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

A spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told reporters in August that Mojave’s work ceased because it had completed its contract.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Typically, revenue would decline in subsequent syndication cycles after the show ceased production and public interest waned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

He said the loan was used to pay for "staffing and other essential business costs" during the pandemic and partial repayments were made until the company ceased trading in late 2022.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

But 17 years after it was launched, nearly 1 in 4 automakers that have participated in the state program have ceased production or exited the zero-emission market, according to a Times analysis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

They waited until the vibrations of its lumbering footsteps ceased before daring to move.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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

Closing these institutions means students are slowly ceasing to overpay for scant added value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Her eyes were brighter than they should be, and she shook without ceasing.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell


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