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Discovery were the latest studios to send cease and desists letter to ByteDance on Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

“An honest conversation about coal and its miners needs to be had, and we should neither cease or desists from having it.”

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2017

"I've gotten cease and desists before," he says.

From Time Magazine Archive

All black cockades are ruthlessly plucked off: one individual picks his up again; kisses it, attempts to refix it; but a 'hundred canes start into the air,' and he desists.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Thus it happens frequently that a man desists from one act of sin, through God causing him thus to desist, without desisting from another act of sin, through the instigation of his own malice.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint