terminus

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Recent Examples of terminus The trail will go through the park and then eventually connect to Pine Point Park, the current terminus of the trail. Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 20 Sep. 2025 The lake helped stabilize the glacier terminus, retreat will accelerate after separation leading to further expansion of this rapidly growing lake. Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025 Ten years later, her name was put on display on North Richards Street from East Capitol Drive to its northern terminus, which includes Richards Street Armory, the home of her company. Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Why Charlotte’s light rail does not use gates Charlotte uses an open proof of payment fare system for the light rail, which runs from UNC Charlotte at its northern end to near Interstate 485 at its southern terminus. Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for terminus
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Noun
  • An autopsy conducted on Campbell revealed significant amount of bruising and abrasions to the boy's head, face, torso, back and extremities.
    Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Reichardt emphasizes the extremity of the action with a strikingly novel form of cinematic narrative that, in a more ordinary drama, might feel like a facile evasion.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The programs in the series were created in a collaboration with performance artists, and resulted in a group of surreal experimental works that pushed the boundaries of sound and narrative well in advance of the digital era.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • If successful, Proposition 50 would ditch a nonpartisan commission California voters established via a 2010 ballot initiative that draws those district boundaries.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The extent of the unavoidable seemed to be in the eye of the beholder.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The extent of the President's potential influence with New Yorkers in Cuomo's uphill battle with Mamdani is questionable.
    Connor Greene, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Michelle exists on a level that is invulnerable to reproach, termination, or cancellation.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Soon after, Kaplan received a brief termination letter that offered no chance to appeal.
    Tamia Fowlkes, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Campaign ads, showing images of flash-mob robberies, promised voters that harsher penalties would put an end to basic items being locked away in display cases and funnel people repeatedly arrested for drug offenses in treatment.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • According to a report from NFL insider Jordan Schultz, Chicago was among the teams with interest in acquiring New York Jets defensive end Jermaine Johnson II.
    Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Terminus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminus. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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