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Recent Examples of surcease Terrible transgressions lead to worse ones, with no prospect of surcease, let alone moral regeneration. WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surcease
Noun
  • Or that cessation triggers withdrawal symptoms—including pain, fever, and diarrhea—similar to those faced by opioid abusers.
    Kevin Sabet, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The Senate bill is opposed by multiple smoking cessation groups, who argued that the Senate version lacked teeth to curb youth vaping.
    Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The complaint also seeks the halt of all work on the project, pending the investigation the petition seeks.
    Penny Weaver, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Instantly, traffic came to a halt on the busy corridor in Everett.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Maybe — just maybe — the Jets showed enough to believe that this sort of ending won’t happen as often anymore.
    Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • No easy fixes and no tidy endings here.
    The Know, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Most recently, last year in Bangladesh, students mobilized to call for the end of a controversial quota system for government jobs.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • To this end, the Kansas City Election Board has mostly relied on existing relationships with schools, churches and libraries.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Surcease.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surcease. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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