terminations

noun

plural of termination
1
as in limits
a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go I've reached the termination of my patience with you kids

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2
as in demises
the act of ceasing to exist feels that the voluntary termination of one's life should be left entirely up to the patient

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3
as in endings
the stopping of a process or activity at the termination of the movie, please throw away any empty food containers in the appropriate bins

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Recent Examples of terminations Now, because of the Supreme Court’s June decision, judges will likely act in the coming weeks to allow the Administration to carry on with its terminations. — Dara Lind, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 Some of the terminations have been reversed by courts, but the fights continue on a grant-by-grant basis. — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026 Recent reporting and research on NIH grant terminations suggest that health equity work has been hit especially hard and that scientists from historically underrepresented groups have borne a disproportionate share of the damage. — Aisha Nyandoro, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Last month, the Supreme Court reversed lower-court judgments that had postponed the administration’s TPS terminations for Haiti and Syria while litigation continued. — Stepheny Price , Bill Melugin, FOXNews.com, 26 July 2026 The disclosure appears to contradict previous statements from Energy Secretary Chris Wright and other administration officials who said grant terminations were based on economic viability and energy priorities rather than politics. — James Ward, USA Today, 25 July 2026 The suit also requests injunctions to prevent future faculty terminations and speech suppression on campus. — Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026 Another thing that’s lost when these chaotic, politically motivated terminations occur is the fallout for other agency employees—your staff. — Cristian Farias, Vanity Fair, 16 July 2026 Oberlander was even more direct in his assessment, suggesting the terminations were politically motivated. — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 3 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for terminations
  1. limits
  2. demises
  3. endings
  4. limitations
  5. deaths
  6. cessations
  7. lines
  8. dissolutions
Noun
  • Championship loss limits were markedly lower than those applied to Premier League clubs.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The bill, which was originally introduced in February by state assemblymember Matt Haney, aimed to curb ticketing scalping by brokers and resale platforms by placing limits on the resale price of concert tickets.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of limits
Noun
  • SpaceX, the commercial spaceflight company Musk founded in 2002, has endured a few more fiery demises of the mammoth Starship rocket since that explosive debut.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 1 May 2026
  • No reason was provided for the shops’ demises.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 26 Nov. 2025
Definition of demises
Noun
  • Our brains hold onto beginnings and endings and lose the middle.
    — James Glover, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Most major characters got their happy endings, though the Roy/Keeley/Jamie love triangle was left largely unresolved.
    — Rachel LaBonte, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of endings
Noun
  • Somaliland is proximate and overcomes some of the limitations imposed by other regional hosts like Djibouti and Middle East partners.
    — Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • These limitations can contribute to nostalgia and homesickness during a long mission.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of limitations
Noun
  • Western nations have imposed economic and political sanctions in response to the military takeover and violent repression of opposition, which has led to the deaths of thousands of civilians and given rise to a civil war.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The latest government data shows that the total number of deaths has surpassed the 2,299 deaths recorded in the 2018-2020 outbreak, which was previously the country’s worst on record.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of deaths
Noun
  • Temporary cessations of hostility, but no permanent closing of the moral and social divide between debtor and creditor, and no giving up on the thought that some lives matter more than others.
    — Henry Freedland, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of cessations
Noun
  • Bragg's office contends that the state charges, including murder and firearms offenses, involve different legal elements and criminal conduct than federal charges, which alleged Mangione traveled across state lines to stalk and kill Thompson.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • There are at least four different lines of evidence that have failed to find any connection, said Angelica Ronald, professor of psychology and genetics at the University of Surrey in the UK.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of lines
Noun
  • Moms for Liberty’s influence has been on a long decline in its home state as the organization faced a wave of resignations, chapter dissolutions and scandals among Moms for Liberty leadership.
    — Trinity Webster-Bass, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
  • The trailer teased screaming matches, tears, accusations of betrayal and clear dissolutions of multiple relationships — both romantic and platonic.
    — Pilar Melendez, NBC news, 27 May 2026
Definition of dissolutions

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