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
  • This award recognized the engineering that helped concrete arch construction move past limits that had held back similar projects for decades.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Depleted underground aquifers and limits on the state’s draw of water from Lake Michigan could constrain data center growth.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 28 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
  • It’s been a summer of endings and beginnings for Tom Colicchio.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Our brains hold onto beginnings and endings and lose the middle.
    — James Glover, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of endings
Noun
  • According to a statement by the team, the approach does have limitations.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The authors also noted some study limitations – including potential unvalidated diagnoses and limited socioeconomic and lifestyle data – as well as the associations not proving causation.
    — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of limitations
Noun
  • In all three cases, authorities have appeared to suggest their deaths were accidental.
    — Ryan Young, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Nepal’s disaster agency said the death toll had climbed to 734 with 2,498 people missing, while Chinese authorities reported 16 deaths and 546 missing, including over a hundred Nepalis and people from over a dozen countries.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 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
  • The show is leaning into its strengths, dialing up the madcap comedy and overlapping dialogue while keeping the story lines rooted in recognizable rites of passage for young people.
    — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Tri-County acknowledged issues with tree branches touching power lines and committed additional resources for tree trimming and system inspections, while local businesses reported lost revenue from outages that often last one to two hours.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 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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“Terminations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terminations. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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