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  • v  have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
  • v  bring to an end or halt
    She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime
  • v  be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
    This sad scene ended the movie
  • v  put an end to
    The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived
  • s  having come or been brought to a conclusion
    the affair is over, ended, finished

  • The firm repurchased stock in a prohibited period shortly before it issued results, and ended up holding more than the legal limit of 10% of its own shares.
  • Hamas insists that it ended the cease-fire precisely because the truce had failed to lift the economic siege of Gaza.
  • Seitz said Watada was frustrated that the case had ended in a mistrial rather than a verdict, but he also said of the case: "I do not believe it will ever be resurrected.
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  • Barack Obama in Boston Globe (registration)
    While his campaign may have ended, this cause lives on for all of us who still believe that we can achieve that dream of one America,Obama told supporters at a rally in Denver.
  • Helen Mirren in AFP
    Mirren said she used to take "a bit of cocaine. I loved coke. I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties. But what ended it for me was when they caught Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, in the early eighties. He was hiding in South America and...
  • President Bush in Yahoo! News
    I have made it clear to the prime minister and Iraq's other leaders that America's commitment is not open-ended,Bush said, and that they may "lose the support of the American people."

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