terminates

present tense third-person singular of terminate
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as in ends
to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point we need to terminate the discussion for this evening, but we'll resume tomorrow morning

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as in defines
to mark the limits of terminated the area set aside for the runners to change their clothes with a series of folding screens

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Recent Examples of terminates His One Big Beautiful Bill Act terminates the investment and production tax credits for wind and solar by the end of 2027. Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025 If the judge terminates the settlement, the detention centers would be closed to third-party inspections. Valerie Gonzalez, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025 It is fed by the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in the Andes Mountains and terminates in Lago Argentino. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for terminates
Verb
  • Games Cowboys have to have When the season ultimately ends, or when there is talk of playoffs, this is one of those nights the Cowboys will look back on and curse themselves for not winning.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Nun ends on a flashback to a scene from The Conjuring, revealing that Ed and Lorraine performed an exorcism on Maurice, the man who helped Irene defeat Valak but ended up getting secretly possessed in the process.
    Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • As compared to solar power, which ceases production at night, or wind power, which is dependent on weather conditions, the sea is in constant motion.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But those will soon be gone, too, as the drugstore chain ceases to exist nationwide.
    Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 23 Aug. 2025
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  • The study defines the sandwich generation as adults who have at least one child under 18 and a living parent—which is around one in four Americans.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • No one game defines a season, no one loss defines a career.
    Don Yaeger, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • Washing and disinfecting decorative pumpkins removes fungal spores and will slow that process down.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The AquaTru Classic is a highly effective countertop reverse osmosis system with a four-stage filtration process that removes up to 99 percent of more than 80 contaminants, including lead, fluoride and PFAS.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
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  • Here are some additional details about this year's Parade of Homes, which concludes on Labor Day.
    Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Nurse Chapel concludes that sleep, friends, and romantic entanglements have been hampering her productivity.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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  • And the hope is that this creature, who's all set up to create chaos and violence, somehow stops that and changes it all.
    Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
  • With the right mix of competence and strategy, engineers can create careers that are both resilient and rewarding in a world that never stops changing.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • This week’s game against the WarHawks will not simply be about getting in the win column, but how the Crimson Tide executes on both sides of scrimmage ahead of next week’s visit from Wisconsin and, following a bye, the start of SEC play at Georgia on September 20.
    Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But, like all technologies, each manufacturer executes it differently.
    Jamie L. LaReau, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
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  • Ashton also dismisses the concerns that a three-year degree lacks the many electives and opportunities for self-discovery.
    Bryan Penprase, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Trump's approach dismisses collective security and weakens NATO's cohesion.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025

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