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The bar says the firm refused to remove McBratney’s name from its website for years despite a cease and desist letter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 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

An attorney for Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, on Thursday sent a cease and desist letter to an unknown individual demanding that they stop accusing the congressman of sexual assault.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

One day he lit into Vanguard’s index funds and almost instantly received a cease and desist order from Vanguard’s attorneys.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

Yet when once the stamp of poetry has been put upon a cry that is as old as humanity, prose desists from rivalry, and is content to quote. 

From Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

It begins when a man desists from evils as sins, progresses as he shuns them, and is perfected as he battles against them.

From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.

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

Lucy exclaimed, desisting from her occupation of opening books and turning over music; "for you can tell us all about Nola and her love story."

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

Mulch and water fruit trees and strawberries in dry weather, desisting when the fruit begins to ripen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

She had twined a ridiculous blue ribbon in his russet curls, which he tried to work off whenever he got a chance, desisting only to lick vigorously at her hand.

From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine

Having in mind the annexation of Holland, it occurred to him that by desisting from that measure he might wrench from Great Britain the lasting peace which she had thus far refused.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan