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NYU Langone Health and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center committed to cease providing medical and surgical procedures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“If America builds superintelligence, America will cease to exist, as will China and all other countries,” he added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

President William Ruto had set today as the deadline for foreigners operating small-scale businesses to cease work.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

They say without an agreement, dams on the river that are used to generate hydropower could cease to function.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

In early 2003 one of them had proposed that they cease to be intellectuals and form a little group that he, the intellectual, would manage—a fact that the traders would quickly forget.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Dostoevsky follows the narrator over four nights and a morning during which he ceases living in his imagination and embraces reality for the first time.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Researchers refer to this phenomenon as Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Every assignment, he explains, ceases to be an individual endeavor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

The former requires all persons to respect the criminal and civil law while in a foreign nation, but ceases to bind them on their departure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

To extirpate is to exterminate or destroy a living entity or group so completely that it ceases to exist forever.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Some trucking companies have ceased doing business, and many more will likely fail if high fuel costs do not subside soon.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

Facing the sea, Havana's famous Malecon seawall has ceased to be a promenade for tourists or lovers.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Coughlans Bakery, which had shops in Kent, Surrey, West Sussex and south London, announced it had ceased trading in June, blaming high business rates and increases in employers' national insurance contributions.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Out of an abundance of caution, the company announced the recall, ceased accepting produce from the farm and said it will be filling orders from alternative suppliers, according to the FDA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Take the language-game represented by Ptolemaic astronomy; that game ceased to be possible when the telescope showed that Venus has a full set of phases.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Ferguson’s Law states that “any great power that spends more on debt servicing than on defense risks ceasing to be a great power.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Given all that, I was somewhat surprised to see heartfelt eulogies for the mail-order racket when Columbia House announced it was ceasing operations later this year.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

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 family appealed the decision at tribunal, where a judge ruled that the council's failure to consult on ceasing the plan invalidated the decision.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

“What do you mean, you might not be at Hogwarts next year?” said Pansy indignantly, ceasing grooming Malfoy at once.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling