desisted

past tense of desist

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for desisted
Verb
  • The Highway Patrol notified the Marines of the incident and the military ceased firing live rounds.
    Zac Anderson, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Eventually, the extended family gatherings ceased altogether.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Hegseth also warned that such strikes would continue until those trying to smuggle drugs into the United States halted their operations.
    Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 23 Oct. 2025
  • A number of America's top employers have halted their sponsorship of H-1B visas for certain roles.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Research is ongoing and is being headed by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and directed by Manuel Pérez Rivas, a press release concluded.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The delicate investigation at the site of the plant has concluded, but determining a cause could take months more, said Brice McCracken, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ special agent in charge at the National Center for Explosives Training and Research.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In March 2025, the BLM discontinued the Adoption Incentive Program after a federal court found the program violated environmental and administrative laws.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Google has announced Privacy Sandbox, which removed tracking cookies in Chrome, is being discontinued in a major update.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Leeds finished fourth in 1991, added to their squad and went on to win the title a year later.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Alker finished 12th in Little Rock but parlayed a tie for second place two weeks later at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship into his second Schwab Cup title in three years.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As part of that process, Netflix stopped disclosing its subscribers at the end of last year.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Weekly updates from the more specific FluView have stopped, as have summary reports from RESP-NET that tracks hospitalizations for Covid-19, flu and RSV from a network of hospitals across the country.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After the round failed, the exercise was terminated, and no additional munitions were fired.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In May 2024, a month after the agency closed, TriShulla said SDC terminated its hardware storage services to save money but didn't respond to the company's requests to pay for its other data storage.
    Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Portland, meanwhile, overcame slipping into the wild-card round with a heavy defeat in the regular-season finale and bounced back with a 3-1 win of its own that ended Real Salt Lake’s season.
    Avi Creditor, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Its protagonist—unnamed, like those in Pond and Checkout 19—is a writer who has recently ended a doomed affair with an older man, Xavier.
    Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Desisted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desisted. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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