desisted

past tense of desist

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Verb
  • Earlier this year, the company abruptly ceased operations at its Jacksonville, Florida, facility and began working to set up the assembly plant in Ontario to assemble commercial electric delivery vans and trucks.
    Pat Maio, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The company has identified material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting and has ceased its remediation plan due to the pending merger.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • Qatar has halted its mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas, citing a lack of willingness from both sides to engage constructively, according to a diplomatic source briefed on the matter.
    Keir Simmons, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • But the execution was halted after the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence issued a subpoena for Roberson to testify about his case, an unprecedented gambit that led to a partial stay of execution from the Texas Supreme Court.
    Dakin Andone, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • In addition, historians concluded other clothing items the Unknown was wearing could have been issued to a member of a unit like the 37th Engineer Combat Battalion.
    NWA Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • North and South Korea have been cut off from each other since the end of the Korean War in 1953, which concluded with an armistice not a peace treaty, leaving the two sides still technically at war.
    Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Omega did drop a model in 2012 to honor this feat but discontinued it in 2021.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Tesla has officially discontinued its most affordable electric car, the Model 3 Standard Range Rear-Wheel-Drive.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • The stand-alone Rishi episode was a perfect example of why audiences flocked to Industry in its third season, which just finished.
    Zachary Siegel, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Kwik Trip finished seventh among the rankings, based on a survey of over 5,700 consumers between March and September 2024.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Both have stopped issuing new housing subsidies.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But that hasn’t stopped the likes of Lego and Hasbro from pushing ahead.
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • The medical condition that ended Henrik Lundqvist’s playing career has set him up to make his next great save.
    Carol Schram, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The deal then closed the day after, so our bidding war ended three days after our actual premiere.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Bell found plenty of movie success post-Veronica (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Frozen) and her NBC show The Good Place was well-received but quickly disappeared from cultural memory.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But something that absolutely moves me that's another component of the show is the character of Margaret (played by Kelli Williams), whose young son disappeared from a local bus station 13 years ago.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
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