cease
verb (used without object)
to stop; discontinue.
are ceasing
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present progressiveof cease.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Another four a week are ceasing to be played because of a lack of maintenance.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
Given these realities, we are ceasing negotiations and moving forward on alternatives for the redevelopment of Howard Terminal.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
“The courts are ceasing to protect human rights. They are disassociating from previously held positions,” Balsells said.
From Washington Times ● May 16, 2019
A problem that may be harder to solve is that people really are ceasing to have children.
From US News ● Sep. 22, 2016
They have made Cuba Spanish—Trinidad, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada have never been English at all, and Jamaica and Barbadoes are ceasing to be English.
From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude
