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A verdict from Basquiat’s estate is no longer possible: its authentication committee disbanded in 2012, at a time when many artists’ estates were ceasing to authenticate artwork because of costly litigation.

From New York Times • May 29, 2022

While most Canadians were ceasing to look to Washington for relief, an increasing number were looking once more to London.

From The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor by Skelton, Oscar Douglas

Under the magic of his words, already they were ceasing to regard her as an outcast.

From The Hickory Limb by O'Neill, Rose Cecil

Surely it was to be so in Fay's heart, now that the bitter tides of remorse and selfishness were ceasing to submerge it, now that at last joy and tenderness were reaching it.

From Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron by Cholmondeley, Mary

They were ceasing in fact to be an intellectual class at all.

From History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by Green, John Richard