cease
Example Sentences
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Kaiser Permanente and Stanford Medicine, among other providers, have said they would cease surgical interventions for minors but continue the other therapies, knowing that gender-affirming surgical operations on minors are almost never performed.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
By September, they claim, lawyers representing some of the families informed them they should cease direct contact, pending legal action.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
The trust merely distributes money to him on a need-to-have basis and, depending on the rules, can just as easily cease payments.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
Russia's Defence Minister Andrei Belousov and army chief Valery Gerasimov have been instructed to "cease hostilities in all directions during this period", the Kremlin said.
From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026
Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Vocabulary lists containing cease
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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