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"Relapses after cessation of treatment are common.",
"the cessation of the snowstorm was a relief",
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"Like India, Pakistan has called for dialogue and the cessation of violence, without assigning blame. \u2014 NBC News , 1 Mar. 2022",
"Still, word of the negotiations gives a glimmer of hope of a cessation of hostilities even as the fighting \u2014 now in its fourth day \u2014 has brought fierce battles on the streets of Kharkiv, Ukraine\u2019s second-largest city. \u2014 Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times , 27 Feb. 2022",
"But, now, with the worry about the Delta-variant, the cessation of most unemployment benefits, and the end of the eviction and mortgage payment moratoriums, the Q4 outlook for consumption, the major driver of GDP, has dimmed. \u2014 Robert Barone, Forbes , 2 Oct. 2021",
"The eradication of smallpox in 1980 and the cessation of use of smallpox vaccine \u2014 which offers some protection against monkeypox \u2014 created an ecological void experts feared another poxvirus might fill. \u2014 Helen Branswell, STAT , 29 May 2022",
"The diplomatic silence also narrows any channel for talks that could curb the conflict and explore a possible cessation to hostilities. \u2014 Alan Cullison, WSJ , 24 May 2022",
"The budget-writing appropriations committee funded a wide variety of state services, including child care, workforce training, domestic violence prevention, open space, smoking cessation , government accountability and clean air, among others. \u2014 Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant , 7 Apr. 2022",
"The last coordinated cessation of hostilities nationwide was during peace talks in 2016. \u2014 Washington Post , 2 Apr. 2022",
"The cessation of cigarette sales can have a big impact on public health. \u2014 Chris Morris, Fortune , 28 Mar. 2022"
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"territorial cessions from one state to another",
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"Roche predicted that central banks would continue to raise interest rates over the next six to nine months which in turn would hurt stocks, reduce economic growth and help to precipitate his war- cession . \u2014 Sophie Mellor, Fortune , 20 June 2022",
"At the turn of the century, following cession of land from the Indigenous Clatsop people, Seaside became a bustling tourist destination on the north Oregon coast, accessible by a short train ride from Portland. \u2014 oregonlive , 20 Feb. 2022",
"Meanwhile, there was no such She- cession in the UK, where employment fell less for females than for males. \u2014 CNN , 3 Feb. 2022",
"The economic depression caused by the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected women more than men, leading some to call it a she- cession . \u2014 Kaleb Nygaard, Fortune , 16 June 2021",
"The team brushed off a shaky start and early goal cession to rumble back for a 3-1 victory, highlighted by a pair of goals from rookie Daryl Dike. \u2014 Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com , 27 Aug. 2020",
"Indigenous people were adapting, while the United States won partial and patchy land cessions , a process accelerated by the War of 1812. \u2014 Caitlin Fitz, The Atlantic , 8 Apr. 2020",
"Indeed, the United States Supreme Court has applied the canons to treaties that do not involve the cession of land to the United States. \u2014 Jennifer Kraus, Twin Cities , 22 Dec. 2019",
"These land cessions are known as the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (Choctaw tribe); Treaty of Cusseta (Creek); Treaty of Pontotoc (Chickasaw); and Treaty of New Echota (Cherokee). \u2014 al , 28 Nov. 2019"
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"The region had become a cesspool of pollution.",
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"The early 2000s were a cesspool of tabloid headlines for celebrities like Lopez. \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 14 June 2022",
"Once again, the famed Monarchs football program appears to be a cesspool of arrogance, entitlement and callousness. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"While Swimming With Sharks is quick to acknowledge that power relations in Tinseltown are a cesspool that poisons everything and everybody that comes through the Dream Factory, that\u2019s not really what the show is about. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 14 Apr. 2022",
"Her father, Dan Pazienza, runs a successful cesspool service company, and her parents live in Port Jefferson, an upscale suburb in Long Island. \u2014 Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News , 30 Mar. 2022",
"On social media, the typical cesspool was replaced by an ocean of goodwill. \u2014 Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle , 11 Mar. 2022",
"His social media feeds are a cesspool of misogyny, bigotry and bizarre fringe conspiracy theories. \u2014 Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune , 8 Jan. 2022",
"Lana was skipping through the courtyard on dairy property near the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church one day in June 1951 when the ground beneath her gave way, swallowing her into a cesspool of raw sewage 35 feet below. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Dec. 2021",
"Because even though the platform is a cesspool of toxicity, there are reasons to stay. \u2014 Washington Post , 11 Nov. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In Mississippi, as Ms. Magazine reported, an uninsured mother had to resort to her husband packing her cesarean section wound to keep her stomach together because staples from the procedure had come out. \u2014 Zoe Jacoby And Reshma Ramachandran, CNN , 21 Apr. 2022",
"Becoming Mom podcast, sharing why she's grown to be proud of the scar left from her cesarean section . \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 6 Nov. 2021",
"Jorgensen, who was eight months pregnant at the time, had to get an emergency cesarean section , but her baby died six days later. \u2014 Holly Thomas, CNN , 1 June 2022",
"After giving birth via emergency cesarean section in 2017, doctors found life-threatening blood clots in Williams' body. \u2014 Hattie Lindert, PEOPLE.com , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Jill was scheduled for a cesarean section at the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Anaheim on May 5 because doctors discovered her son, Oliver, was in a breech position. \u2014 Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com , 12 May 2022",
"After having children via cesarean section , her stomach has no muscles left to hold it together. \u2014 cleveland , 1 May 2022",
"After having children via cesarean section , her stomach has no muscles left to hold it together. \u2014 Annie Lane, oregonlive , 1 May 2022",
"Prince arrived after Martin underwent an emergency cesarean section following 13 hours of labor, according to Carter's social media account of the delivery. \u2014 Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com , 31 Dec. 2021"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Once she was left in tears, feeling helpless when a woman of color was threatened during labor with a court order for wanting to hold off on a cesarean . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 10 Nov. 2021",
"Born by cesarean in September 2020, both babies did have to spend time in separate neonatal intensive care units (NICU). \u2014 John Bonifield And Sandee Lamotte, CNN , 16 Apr. 2021",
"Another died at the age of 26 after an emergency cesarean . \u2014 Jasmine Vaughn-hall, USA TODAY , 19 Nov. 2020",
"Typically, developers based their algorithms on studies showing a correlation between race and some medical outcome, assuming race explained or was even the cause of, say, a poorer outcome (from a vaginal birth after a cesarean , say). \u2014 Sharon Begley, STAT , 17 June 2020",
"In fact, said Dr. Rossiter, cord compression is a common cause of emergency cesareans . \u2014 New York Times , 18 Apr. 2020",
"According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a vaginal birth after cesarean , or VBAC, is an option for some women, depending on the type of incision made in the earlier surgery and the birth facility, among other factors. \u2014 Katherine Hobson, New York Times , 17 Apr. 2020",
"Kaiser Southern California has delayed such inductions, as well as planned cesareans due to coronavirus. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 1 Apr. 2020",
"Fecal samples were taken from babies age four, seven or 21 days old, who had been born in UK hospitals by vaginal delivery or cesarean . \u2014 Katie Hunt, CNN , 18 Sep. 2019"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"After the 2011 tsunami caused a nuclear accident at the Fukushima power plant, Prussian Blue was one of the tools used to clean up radioactive cesium from the soil in the surrounding area. \u2014 Eva Amsen, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
"The waves are fast, moving at rhythms, or frequencies, some 100,000 times that of the microwave energy that excites cesium . \u2014 New York Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"The gamma rays emitted by cesium and cobalt can kill germs multiplying in your meat and make your apples last longer. \u2014 Sarah Scoles, Scientific American , 11 Mar. 2022",
"This enables optical atomic clocks to measure time far more precisely than cesium clocks. \u2014 New York Times , 25 Apr. 2022",
"Strontium is a better candidate for an optical clock than cesium , which lacks really narrow optical transitions, Kolkowitz says. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 28 Mar. 2022",
"One removal-and-replacement success strategy involves swapping blood irradiators that use cesium 137 for those that rely on x-ray technology. \u2014 Sarah Scoles, Scientific American , 11 Mar. 2022",
"That could release large amounts of cesium 137, a radioactive material that forced widespread evacuation of people who had been living anywhere near the Chernobyl site or the Fukushima area in Japan after the 2011 tsunami. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Mar. 2022",
"The irradiated fuel ponds of the type Ukrainian authorities warned about at Chernobyl on Wednesday contain radioactive substances like iodine, cesium and plutonium. \u2014 Laurence Norman, WSJ , 9 Mar. 2022"
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Since 1967, the second has been defined by the cesium 133 atom. \u2014 Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics , 26 Apr. 2022",
"In the case of cesium 133 , the frequency is nearly 9.2 billion ticks per second \u2014 9,192,631,770, to be precise. \u2014 New York Times , 25 Apr. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Dubbed the world\u2019s fastest ball sport, jai alai involves players hurling and catching a pelota with a cesta on a three-walled court. \u2014 Arian Campo-flores, WSJ , 30 Mar. 2022",
"During the past few months, the athletes have been learning to maneuver long, curved baskets ( cestas ) strapped to their hands, and hurl the ball (pelota) against the court walls at speeds up to 170 mph. \u2014 Michelle Kaufman, miamiherald , 29 June 2018"
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