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 The complaint adds to the growing list of legal challenges to the mass terminations under FBI Director Kash Patel of agents who participated in investigations of the Republican president or are seen as opposed to Trump administration interests. — Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026 All of this makes the recent terminations tricky for OpenAI and shows that safety disclosures are still very much at the whims of the labs. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026 Deadlines can therefore vary substantially even when two disputes both involve terminations. — William Jones, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026 That cut was rejected by Congress, and the policy behind the NIH grant terminations was also voided by a court. — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026 Roughly 6,000 people left the Forest Service last year through a mix of terminations and buyouts, shrinking it by about 16%, according to federal employment data reviewed by CBS News. — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026 Hundreds of those grants were later reinstated when a federal judge ruled that the slap-dash nature of the terminations violated the Administrative Procedures Act, which regulates how agencies are supposed to change policies. — Anil Oza, STAT, 17 Sep. 2026 The move, which also included staff terminations, underscores a broader shift in Ecuadorian society, at a time when many governments in the region are moving to the political right, away from heralding social inclusion. — Caterina Morbiato, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2026 Acevedo, the national tenure expert who studied 20 years of all publicly available data, found most terminations occur at public institutions, undermining political claims that tenure hampers these institutions’ ability to fire bad actors. — Andrea Eger, Oklahoma Watch, 6 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for terminations
  1. limits
  2. demises
  3. endings
  4. limitations
  5. deaths
  6. cessations
  7. lines
  8. dissolutions
Noun
  • Whether lawmakers accept those limits will help determine how much authority the federal government gains over advanced AI systems.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • France, unlike the United States, places strict limits on campaign spending, but money still shapes the broader political ecosystem.
    — Nicholas Bequelin, Time, 16 Oct. 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
  • The main reason the Giants have a chance to win every week, though, despite all their injuries and heart-stopping endings, is that Jameis Winston is playing well as their starting quarterback.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Dramatic — and sometimes controversial — endings were the story of a wild college football Saturday, with late-game calls deciding some outcomes and potentially having an effect on how the College Football Playoff shapes up a couple months from now.
    — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of endings
Noun
  • None of it feels remotely tied to the zeitgeist, instead showing an artist galvanized by their own out-there proclivities and exhilarated by the limitations of whatever ramshackle gear might be lying around a home studio.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Ukraine’s Armed Forces learned about the Starshield terminals’ speed limitations from SpaceX customer support after filing a complaint about operational issues, and SpaceX provided no prior warning, according to the source.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of limitations
Noun
  • Janabi said one of the biggest challenges has been persuading those who are infected to seek medical assistance, adding that some deaths occur in the community outside of health centers.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • In Minnesota, none of the federal agents involved in the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti have been criminally charged, but a string of civil lawsuits is beginning to emerge.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 19 Oct. 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
  • Jayendu Krishna, a director at Drewry Maritime Advisors, said none of the major container shipping lines had resumed services through Hormuz since suspending operations following the outbreak of the war in February.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
  • To judge from the lines of young, very devoted fans snaking around the cemetery, Geese has already built the requisite subculture to thrive longer-term.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 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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“Terminations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminations. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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