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
Broad cloths, though encumbering cloth halls, are ceasing all over the earth—so say, at least, the Leeds anti-corn-law sages.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
