effectively cease
Frequency: 7.010.8 per million words
to stop in a way that produces the intended result
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Examples (10)
- My job had effectively ceased to exist.
- After the merger, the smaller company effectively ceased to operate as an independent entity.
- With the rise of streaming, the market for physical DVDs has effectively ceased.
- Once he moved abroad, our regular communication effectively ceased.
- The old law will effectively cease to be relevant once the new one is enacted.
- Without a power source, the machine effectively ceases to function.
- When the funding was cut, the research project effectively ceased.
- Following the scandal, his influence over the board effectively ceased.
- By the 1980s, the species had effectively ceased to exist in the wild.
- Due to a lack of apprentices, the ancient tradition has effectively ceased.