as in to stop
to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end
ordered to desist from using the copyrighted music without permission
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Shortly after Braun’s executive order, the Indiana Department of Health told local health departments to stop accepting requests to change genders on birth certificates.—
Marissa Meador,
IndyStar,
24 July 2025 -
Break it up by stopping at the St. Regis Travel Center in St. Regis, Montana, for a huckleberry milkshake.—
Sal Vaglica,
USA Today,
23 July 2025
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Which is yet another reason for politicians to cease trying to corrupt the brilliance of freely arrived at price signals.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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Historic vote guts public media nationally On May 1, Trump issued an executive order instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the private nonprofit that manages the federal money for public media, to cease funding of NPR and PBS.—
Angele Latham,
The Tennessean,
30 July 2025
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Their figures blew away the totals of each of the other five National League teams that would make the playoffs if the season ended today.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Aug. 2025
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Originally, the it was supposed to end 24 hours ago, when northerly winds were predicted to move the smoke back up north.—
Jack Albright,
jsonline.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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Soon after announcing the tariffs, Mr. Trump halted them for 90 days, in a pause that was set to expire in early July.—
Lazaro Gamio,
New York Times,
28 July 2025
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First, income convergence between Black and white Americans largely halted.—
Idrees Kahloon,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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Money has also been spent on nongovernmental organization programs that hand out clean needles and crack pipes as part of progressive harm reduction policies instead of encouraging homeless drug users to quit.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
14 July 2025
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Although the overall unemployment rate is just 4.1%, few people are quitting jobs today, and employers are skittish about hiring.—
Scott Horsley,
NPR,
13 July 2025
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Back in 2020, Chacon's father, who's also a physician, was laid off from his job at a hospital in Miami.—
Kamaron McNair,
CNBC,
25 July 2025
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In tech alone, more than 159 companies have laid off over 80,000 workers as of July 17, according to layoffs.fyi.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Charron, 39, was found guilty of first-degree murder in April in connection with the death of Sardinha, 25, who was stabbed twice in the chest and nearly had her nose cut off on Sept. 2, 2020, in her apartment in Huntington Beach, KTLA reported.—
Christine Pelisek,
People.com,
28 July 2025
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Hunger in Gaza escalated after Israel cut off supplies in March.—
Savannah Kuchar,
USA Today,
27 July 2025
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