as in cessation
the stopping of a process or activity
after the closure of the region's last copper mine, the population simply withered away
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Recent Examples of closure
The Metropolitan Police Department listed in a news release on May 28 the full list of closures and restrictions.
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Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 6 June 2025
The first phase involves reducing operations and staffing over several months, moving inmates to other prisons, and conducting studies on logistics, closure impacts and the site’s long-term future.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 5 June 2025
So lumping it in with school closures is a mistake.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
There is a road closure on Broadway Boulevard from West 16th Street to I-670 West.
—Kansas City Star, 26 May 2025
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Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 6 June 2025
The first phase involves reducing operations and staffing over several months, moving inmates to other prisons, and conducting studies on logistics, closure impacts and the site’s long-term future.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 5 June 2025
So lumping it in with school closures is a mistake.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
There is a road closure on Broadway Boulevard from West 16th Street to I-670 West.
—Kansas City Star, 26 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for closure
Noun
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Those cessations in breathing are what constitutes apnea.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
19 May 2025
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In multiple rounds of diplomacy in 2014 and 2015, after Russia’s takeover of Crimea and incursion into Ukraine’s Donbas region, France and Germany expended more effort on a cosmetic cessation of hostilities than on solving the underlying problems of regional security.—
Liana Fix,
Foreign Affairs,
1 May 2025
Noun
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On a more emotional level, the anticlimactic ending ushered in the conclusion of a 46-year career for coach Bob Babb.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
31 May 2025
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However, there have still been some vocal fans who are upset with changes made from the original, including completely cutting a character and making a significant change to the original movie's ending.—
Jeremy Hanna,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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That was after the pandemic lockdown brought concerts — and much of the world — shuddering to a halt in 2020 and much of 2021 (and before the COVID resurgence that followed).—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2025
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Your money can become temporarily or permanently inaccessible, payment systems can seize up, and the real economy can be brought to a halt.—
Jon Helgi Egilsson,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
Noun
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The teaser at the end of this week’s hour-long episode promises bonafide flagship mess: Obnoxious guests, police coming onboard, deckhand Kyle apparently hooking up with a guest.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
3 June 2025
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Nawrocki jumped ahead in later polls and would hold on for the victory by the end of the day.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
2 June 2025
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Billy Joel knows life isn't about happy endings As the film tapers to a close, Joel is steering his boat – the Alexa, named for his daughter with ex-wife Christie Brinkley – with a cigar in his mouth and his eyes focused on the water of Oyster Bay.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
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The actors who played them also became the center of much gossip after the season came to a close.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
Noun
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In 2018, The Karate Kid franchise made a comeback with two seasons of Cobra Kai on the now-defunct YouTube Red channel before it was acquired by Netflix, which in turn produced four more seasons that came to a conclusion earlier this year.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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In other words, hundreds of politicians would sit around D.C. for weeks, and even months, trying to come to a conclusion as to what to charge other Countries that are treating us unfairly.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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India cut steel production by 70 percent amid a 21-day production shutdown.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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The last of the businesses at the once-popular Festival Marketplace mall in Pompano Beach are packing up to leave as the decades-old retail spot that hosted boutiques, jewelers, electronics, furniture shops and eateries nears a June 1 shutdown.—
David Lyons,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2025
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“Closure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/closure. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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