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The act of ending or concluding.

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  • . . . the imagination at every change finds a check; you are presented at every alteration with the termination of one idea, and the beginning of another; . . .
  • The termination of the agreement
  • "I don't want to speculate," Murphy said, about reasons for what he called a termination
  • JUDGE DAVID YOUNG, HOST, "JUDGE DAVID YOUNG": They can under what they call a termination of parental rights.
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