desists

present tense third-person singular of desist

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for desists
Verb
  • Without any of the three, money once again ceases to circulate.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Some of the details may subtly shift between each retelling, but the story always remains the same and never ceases to grab attention.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There is a single two-lane road into and out of Black Rock City, which terminates at the Burning Man gate.
    Denver Nicks, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Netflix’s Chaos Monkey randomly terminates instances in production to force engineers to build services that survive failures.
    Mukul Garg, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That would mean extending the League One play-off to the team that finishes eighth and the League Two play-off to ninth, as four teams go up and down between Leagues One and Two.
    Matt Slater, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • As things stand, there's a small chance Brown finishes his career anywhere other than Boston.
    Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The report concludes that North Korea is far from adhering to its obligations under international law.
    Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Thursday’s report concludes the investigation into the collision between a Bell 407, on a helicopter coordinator training flight, and a Sikorsky S-64E Skycrane helitanker during a 2023 wildfire near Cabazon, California.
    Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When policy, innovation, and business insight align, CCU stops being a piece of green rhetoric and becomes good business.
    Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The buck stops with the humans.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Antihydra almost certainly never halts.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2025
  • More than 50 Democratic lawmakers fled the state earlier this week, a decision that halts action on redistricting, as well as other bills in the legislature.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Sources said Bessent is waiting to interview current Fed members until after the blackout period surrounding next week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting ends.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The Atlanta Braves have a difficult decision to make with manager Brian Snitker once the season ends.
    Drew VonScio, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Desists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desists. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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