Example Sentences

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Nikki’s interiority ceases only a moment after that fateful conversation about love and romance on the way home from the bar.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

But if it goes to a nonspouse heir, the IRS says it ceases to be an HSA and treats it as one big withdrawal that counts as income in that tax year for the beneficiaries.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

They have more than 180 varieties in their catalogue, but several hundred more in development, because the demand for novelty and development never ceases.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

Lajos is born with skin so pale it is almost transparent, and while Mr. Biedermann soon ceases to mention the abnormality, it introduces Lajos’s uncanny lifelong sensation of invisibility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

So as knowledge ceases to be a question of Evidence-Perspicuity and becomes a question of Evidence-Indices a whole new set of intellectual virtues are demanded of the knower.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton