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Last month, Dawn Buckingham, who leads the General Land Office, sent a cease and desist letter to CBP and a federal contractor she said had illegally cleared GLO-owned land in Presidio County.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Becerra’s campaign called the ad defamatory in a cease and desist letter sent to the Steyer campaign on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

According to the 30-year-old singer's legal team, Samsung apparently ignored "repeated demands" to "cease and desist from infringing on her rights".

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

Small is represented by barrister Francis McEntegart, who sent a cease and desist letter to the club with a demand for compensation.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 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

For he is in the lists Contentious with the elements, whose dower First sprang him; for swift vultures to devour If he desists.

From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith

Villiers follows to Prag; desists not from his eloquent Letters, and earnest persuasions at Prag; but begins to perceive that the means of persuading Bruhl will be a much heavier kind of artillery.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle

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

Cleo asked Mary, desisting in her efforts to unmask Shep.

From The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening by Lilian Garis

“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 Mayne Reid

But, after Jack had gone out, he resumed his study of the detector a second time, desisting every time he heard a step outside.

From The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code by Charles L. (Charles Lewis) Wrenn

Von Bloom saw this; and, desisting from his previous intention, he determined to adopt Swartboy's plan.

From Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid