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Recent Examples of closure On Friday, D’Amelio wore a black sheer crop top with lace trim and a tie closure at the front. Julia Teti, Footwear News, 16 Apr. 2025 Applebee’s told The Star the closures appeared to be because of financial reasons. Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2025 Security checkpoints were also added near Ocean Drive, which received a 6 p.m. closure to its already limited beach access. Moná Thomas, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025 Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced the closure of a small arm within the State Department aimed at countering foreign disinformation campaigns, which Republicans increasingly criticized as silencing conservative voices online. Laura Kelly, The Hill, 16 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for closure
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Noun
  • Forbes is protected by reCAPTCHA, and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Cuts to smoking prevention and cessation programs, for example, don’t square with the aim of decreasing rates of chronic disease.
    Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Any deal that eases sanctions or normalizes Russia's global standing should come with an end to weapons transfers to Iran and Syria and a cessation of military cooperation that enhances Iran's nuclear and missile programs.
    Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • As previously reported, the actor is set to reprise his role on the offshoot, and this bit of info from Harvey, tying Hardman to Ted’s Big Bad, certainly helps piece together the why and how, as does, possibly, the episode’s ending.
    Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Drake was also accused of refusing to identify a person who rewrote the ending of the film, and who was not a guild member.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But Putin had other ideas, tying a halt in hostilities to the West readmitting certain Russian banks into the West’s financial network.
    Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
  • More than 1,000 clinical trials have come to a halt across the country and world, ranging from cardiovascular disease treatment to HIV prevention, to childhood and adult cancer treatment.
    Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The end of the parole program is part of Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration paths that allow people to temporarily come to the U.S. Republicans also criticized the parole program as an overreach and abuse of executive presidential power.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
  • While the million-token context window is impressive, OpenAI’s data suggests that model accuracy can decrease when processing information at the extreme end of that scale, indicating a need for testing and validation for specific long-context use cases.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That could easily change as his tenure as governor comes to a close, and as the Trump administration continues to push its policy agenda.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Abbott Elementary season 4 finale The school year is soon coming to a close, and Abbott Elementary is following suit.
    Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These are big conclusions to draw from so little playing time.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Across the music world, other international artists — even those with far more name recognition and resources — are coming to the same conclusion.
    Alex Ashley, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • What To Know The shutdown announcement came hours after Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on federal authorities to revoke New York Helicopter Tours' operating permits.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Meta will point to an increase in traffic to Instagram and Facebook during TikTok's brief shutdown in the United States in January as evidence of competition, according to court records.
    Jody Godoy, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Closure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/closure. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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