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[sees] / sis /


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Both OnPoint and Xpress delivery stations will permanently cease operations, and no replacement companies have been announced yet to operate there.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

Letterboxd, as we know and love it, would cease to exist, transforming into another nu-media ouroboros.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2026

Collins says she has encouraged ICE “to cease all non-urgent vehicle stops,” wants a “full and impartial” investigation of the Biddeford shooting, and thinks agents should wear body cameras.

From Slate Jul. 14, 2026

But I do believe that once artificial general intelligence is starting to roll out across our economy, the traditional economic models they are using will cease to be a reliable guide to the future.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

Ari-Eil realized, as he plucked Minya back onto the walkway, that he did not wish to cease to exist.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

If exchange ceases to be reciprocal, the entire relationship changes.

From Science Daily Jul. 7, 2026

If a child isn’t acting exactly how a parent or caretaker would prefer at any moment, is that the barrier where our love for them ceases, even momentarily?

From Salon Jun. 28, 2026

But if it goes to a nonspouse heir, the IRS says it ceases to be an HSA and treats it as one big withdrawal that counts as income in that tax year for the beneficiaries.

From MarketWatch May 21, 2026

"When anger is turned towards communities – whether Jewish, Muslim, or any other – it ceases to be a call for justice and becomes something far more corrosive," he wrote.

From BBC May 14, 2026

Their duties are terminated, and their pay ceases.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

My preferred way to eat chicken noodle soup as a child was with so many Saltines crushed into the bowl that it ceased to resemble soup altogether.

From Salon Jul. 14, 2026

Once South Africa ceased to be a Cold War pawn, the economic costs of sanctions imposed by countries across the globe broke the government’s resistance.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Jamal has ceased all medication, including the fertility stack, under Jayasena's advice.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

Roughly 26 percent of the trees' yearly carbon uptake happened after growth had ceased.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

Anyhow, all of a sudden the momentary verbal exchange had ceased; the cat’s owner had gone roar-ing up into the sky in his custom new-model handsome hovercar.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, told reporters Thursday that the talks starting would be “contingent” upon hostilities ceasing in Lebanon.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 2026

The U.S. activist investor said key elements of the stand-alone plan included unwinding cross-shareholdings and ceasing overinvestment in the automotive segment.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 2, 2026

A fragile ceasefire followed, but the negotiations failed to bring about a ceasing of hostilities between the two sides.

From BBC Feb. 27, 2026

He was accused of ceasing his rent payments in October 2016, two months before his lease came to an end in December of that year.

From MarketWatch Jan. 8, 2026

For he had become a Christian, some forty years earlier, without ceasing in the least to be a loyal Jew.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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