terminations

noun

plural of termination
1
as in limits
a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go I've reached the termination of my patience with you kids

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2
as in demises
the act of ceasing to exist feels that the voluntary termination of one's life should be left entirely up to the patient

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3
as in endings
the stopping of a process or activity at the termination of the movie, please throw away any empty food containers in the appropriate bins

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Recent Examples of terminations For instance, the administration announced the terminations for Nicaragua and Honduras three days after they were set to expire on July 8, 2025, but provided a 60-day extension. — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 The ruling follows a Friday morning hearing, which came on the final day of a week-long reprieve from the Pentagon that temporarily stayed the trio’s terminations. — Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026 Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images Two former Golden State Warriors employees have sued the NBA franchise, alleging gender, age and race-based discrimination, workplace harassment and retaliation tied to their terminations. — Devon Henderson, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026 Among other requests, the complaint asked the court to declare the firings unlawful under the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedures Act and bar the Pentagon from proceeding with the terminations. — Brieanna J. Frank, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 Now, because of the Supreme Court’s June decision, judges will likely act in the coming weeks to allow the Administration to carry on with its terminations. — Dara Lind, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 Some of the terminations have been reversed by courts, but the fights continue on a grant-by-grant basis. — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026 Recent reporting and research on NIH grant terminations suggest that health equity work has been hit especially hard and that scientists from historically underrepresented groups have borne a disproportionate share of the damage. — Aisha Nyandoro, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Last month, the Supreme Court reversed lower-court judgments that had postponed the administration’s TPS terminations for Haiti and Syria while litigation continued. — Stepheny Price , Bill Melugin, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for terminations
  1. limits
  2. demises
  3. endings
  4. limitations
  5. deaths
  6. cessations
  7. lines
  8. dissolutions
Noun
  • However, there are limits, and attributing knowledge, responsibility, or involvement in matters of this nature to me without presenting a single piece of evidence clearly crosses that line.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • This is the ideal time to visit vineyards just outside the city limits for glasses of biodynamic wine, house a schnitzel at an old-fashioned café, or catch a screening of The Third Man at the cozy Burg Kino movie theater.
    — Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of limits
Noun
  • SpaceX, the commercial spaceflight company Musk founded in 2002, has endured a few more fiery demises of the mammoth Starship rocket since that explosive debut.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 1 May 2026
  • No reason was provided for the shops’ demises.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 26 Nov. 2025
Definition of demises
Noun
  • For those who haven’t seen the only good movie based on a board game (sorry, Battleship), Clue has multiple endings in order to simulate the repeatability of the game.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026
  • It’s been a summer of endings and beginnings for Tom Colicchio.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of endings
Noun
  • With the construction limitations and the lack of ownership, there’s no true incentive to economically develop the site.
    — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Knowing that his playing career would come to an end in college because of his physical limitations, Adams started looking around at how Boise State could pave the path for the next step in his career as a coach.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of limitations
Noun
  • Castro turned 95 in June, just days after he was indicted in Miami for the deaths of four men during the 1996 shootdown over the Floida Straits of a plane belonging to the Cuban exile organization Brothers to the Rescue by Cuban military jets.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Construction accounts for a disproportionate share of workplace deaths compared with its share of the overall workforce.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of deaths
Noun
  • Temporary cessations of hostility, but no permanent closing of the moral and social divide between debtor and creditor, and no giving up on the thought that some lives matter more than others.
    — Henry Freedland, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of cessations
Noun
  • At 34, frustrated by the lack of a decent salary and deteriorating living conditions, including declining healthcare and long lines for gasoline, De La Cruz began to think about leaving Cuba.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026
  • For me, the most important aspects of this game for the Vikings are the performances of the offensive and defensive lines.
    — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of lines
Noun
  • Moms for Liberty’s influence has been on a long decline in its home state as the organization faced a wave of resignations, chapter dissolutions and scandals among Moms for Liberty leadership.
    — Trinity Webster-Bass, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
  • The trailer teased screaming matches, tears, accusations of betrayal and clear dissolutions of multiple relationships — both romantic and platonic.
    — Pilar Melendez, NBC news, 27 May 2026
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“Terminations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminations. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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