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  • The war has come to a point of cessation.  (source)
    cessation = ending
  • It was the longest cessation of contact between them since they had left the city of their birth.  (source)
    cessation = stoppage
  • The twins, puzzled, looked at each other; while Piggy, reassured by the cessation of violence, stood up carefully.  (source)
    cessation = ending
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  • The cessation of rhythmic breathing suggests that either people have woken or have never really been asleep at all.  (source)
    cessation = ending
  • Death, as a cessation of movement, as a passing out and away from the lives of the living, he knew, and he knew John Thornton was dead.  (source)
  • At first the ravenous animals were startled and terrified at the change—at the cessation of movement.  (source)
    cessation = stoppage
  • Inside, it was dark but dry and the cessation of rain shocked him.†  (source)
  • The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering.†  (source)
  • When I opened my eyes, more of the Bikura had arrived...There was a cessation of movement, as if a quorum had been filled, a decision reached.†  (source)
  • Plegia is the cessation of motion.†  (source)
  • She's offering a small portion of Wonderland, probably in Outerwilderbeastia but still to be decided, in exchange for a cessation of all rebel activity," said a plump fellow wedged into a chair and wearing the long mantle common among young men of suit families.†  (source)
  • As with all smoking cessation aids, it has the least success with the heaviest smokers.†  (source)
  • Chicago's Commercial and Financial Chronicle reported, "Never before has there been such a sudden and striking cessation of industrial activity."†  (source)
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