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terminus

[tur-muh-nuhs] / ˈtɜr mə nəs /


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They are Dover's ferry port, Eurotunnel's Folkestone terminal, and Eurostar's St Pancras rail terminus.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

The recently shuttered Clifton’s in downtown Los Angeles sits at 7th and Broadway, the original terminus of Route 66.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

For the surface versions, the peptide was attached at either the N terminus or the C terminus, a subtle difference that can influence how immune cells recognize and process it.

From Science Daily Feb. 18, 2026

A classical stadium at its end would counterbalance the Greek-temple-inspired Lincoln Memorial at the opposite terminus.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 20, 2026

A notion crept over her like a shadow: that this station was not the start of the line but its terminus.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

As temperatures continue rising around the Antarctic Peninsula, more glaciers are losing their protective ice tongues and becoming tidewater glaciers, meaning their termini rest directly on the seabed.

From Science Daily May 19, 2026

"Stations in a Loop or Hyperloop system are small in size and widely distributed in a network — very different from large-station termini considered for train systems," the company spokesman said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 2018

“Stations in a Loop or Hyperloop system are small in size and widely distributed in a network — very different from large-station termini considered for train systems,” the company spokesman said.

From Washington Post Feb. 16, 2018

"It wasn't the busiest of termini but it was an impressive building which had one single arch and was based on St Pancras," said railway historian Eddie Johnson.

From BBC Jan. 10, 2015

Business was suspended; trains no longer left the termini; omnibuses, trams, and cabs had ceased running, the horses having been pressed into military service, and those which had not had been killed and eaten.

From The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

A chain-link fence spanned the terminuses of the complex’s four dead-end streets, behind which lay a dense patch of woods.

From Slate Sep. 26, 2021

It’s also near the terminuses of both the Cascadia Subduction Zone and the San Andreas Fault.

From Seattle Times Dec. 8, 2016

In what should be one of the world's great rail terminuses, the locomotives themselves are hidden further underground.

From BBC May 27, 2015

I ha' started from terminuses, and I ha' stopped in 'em, so I knows what I'm telling about.

From A Drake by George! by John Trevena

Neither was Julesburg, or Sidney, or Cheyenne, when they was terminuses.

From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd




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