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are ceasing

  • present progressive of cease.

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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

It has transformed research in a wide range of fields, but the progress means genetically modified babies are ceasing to be a prospect and fast becoming a possibility.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2015

Men are ceasing to regard the Bible as a series of legal enactments or common-law precedents of equal authority.

From The Unity of Civilization by Various