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Discover LudwigThe phrase "was cease" is not correct and usable in written English.
It appears to be a grammatical error, as "was" and "cease" do not fit together in standard English usage. Example: "The project was set to cease operations last month."
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was cease
verb
To stop.
Exact(2)
"After 2009, it was cease and desist and everyone stopped selling all food," she said.
All the FTC wanted Intel to do was "cease and desist" from directly or indirectly discriminating against its customers with regard to supplying advance product information, prototypes and actual products.
Similar(57)
Slavery, it was argued, was ceasing to be profitable.
Citywide, the Old was ceasing to be a problem.
Penney's also said it was ceasing its quarterly dividend.
Last week, Midway Airlines announced that it was ceasing operations.
On Monday, Mr. Tough announced that he was ceasing publication.
Therefore in line with ethical guidelines the experiment was ceased.
When positive overjet was achieved, protraction was ceased and post-treatment records were taken (T2).
Ethylene tetramerization was ceased by rapid depressurization of the reactor followed by quenching with methanol.
Following establishment of a therapeutic prothrombin time/international normalized ratio with warfarin, the heparin was ceased.
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