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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for closure
Recent Examples of Synonyms for closure
Noun
  • Those cessations in breathing are what constitutes apnea.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 19 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • India cut steel production by 70 percent amid a 21-day production shutdown.
    Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
  • 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 10 Jun. 2025.

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