as in to stop
to come to an end
she mused that it was as if her affection for him had just winked out one day
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The Windsor Police Department said in a social media post that one of its deputies stopped a vehicle with two passengers in the 700 block of Shiloh Road at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday.—
Suhauna Hussain,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2025 -
Don’t stop the agreement that has already brought dozens of hostages back to us.—
Ibrahim Dahman,
CNN,
1 Mar. 2025
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And what's the best way to end an unpredictable, somewhat toxic Oscar cycle?—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, meanwhile, ended the session down 188.04 points, or 0.43%, after being up as much as 245.34 points earlier in the day.—
Josephine Rozzelle,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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Most expire at the end of the year, and if that happens, tax rates would revert to pre-2017 levels that would raise many taxes.—
David Lightman,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Feb. 2025
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The previous agreement expired last February, and Equity ceased issuing new Development contracts in June.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
27 Feb. 2025
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Russian assaults are down from up to 60 per day to as few as 18, CDS concluded.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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Icke’s’ Oedipus began performances at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre on October 4, 2024, and concluded its record-breaking run on January 4.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
6 Mar. 2025
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The program ended in the early 1960s after a member of the CIA Inspector General's staff learned of MKUltra's experiments and ordered them to cease all experimentation on non-consenting subjects.—
Jessica Sager,
People.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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On Thursday, the university, a historically Black institution, ordered the fraternity chapter to cease all activities and suspended pledging for all Greek organizations for the rest of the academic year.—
Neil Vigdor,
New York Times,
8 Mar. 2025
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In some of the first practical consequences of that rupture, U.S. shipments of weapons and equipment already en-route to Ukraine were halted Monday night, a U.S. defense official told NBC News.—
Artem Grudinin,
NBC News,
6 Mar. 2025
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All live-fire exercises in the current drill were halted until the investigation to determine the exact reason for the accident was finished.—
Hakyung Kate Lee,
ABC News,
6 Mar. 2025
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The host’s original intent was to allocate an equal slice to each child’s branch, thus, if one child is absent, that branch’s share is passed along to that child’s offspring.—
Ashley Case,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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While Hackman was not one of the actors listed by Chalamet in his speech, in the immediate aftermath of his passing, many have been quick to define the two-time Oscar winner similarly as one of the greatest performers to ever burn up the stage and screen.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
1 Mar. 2025
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Her only ally is a mystical axe whose victims wind up as decapitated, talking heads.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Adapted from Peter Brown’s illustrated book, the story follows robot Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) who winds up on a remote island and learns to cohabit with animals and adopts an orphan gosling.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Wink (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wink%20%28out%29. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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