cessation
noun
a temporary or complete stopping; discontinuance.
cessations
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pluralof cessation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations last week had resulted in an agreement to create tentative cessations of fighting along “green” humanitarian corridors to facilitate civilian evacuations.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2022
During cessations of hostilities in the 1980s and 1990s, standard immunizations reached children in countries including Afghanistan, Cambodia, Lebanon, and Sudan.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 26, 2021
Sleep apnea is a term that’s used broadly to describe cessations of breath during sleep.
From The Verge ● Aug. 30, 2017
But their efforts have brought no lasting truce to Syria, only brief cessations of hostility that have ended, usually, when Syrian troops go on the attack.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2016
Not only after continued rest, do they regain their full power not only do brief cessations partially reinvigorate them; but even while they are in action, the resulting exhaustion is ever being neutralized.
From The Philosophy of Style by Herbert Spencer
