How to Use terminal in a Sentence
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The cancer proved to be terminal, and Lacks passed away later that year at age 31.
—Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
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This encounter was the first in-flight test of the spacecraft’s terminal tracking system.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
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While waiting, the crowd was rattled by the sound of a nearby airstrike, and a piece of shrapnel appeared to fall on the metal canopy of the terminal area.
—Vivian Yee, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
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Choose Easy Pick or Quick Pick to have the terminal randomly pick numbers for you.
—The Enquirer, 3 July 2023
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Now, all that's left is phase two: demolishing the old, curved south terminal wing of the airport, which is no longer in use.
—Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2024
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His struggle for form and fitness appeared, to many, to be terminal.
—Graham Ruthven, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
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But could the notion that life sucks be a starting point for discovery rather than a terminal epiphany?
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
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Field plays a woman coming to terms with the tragic news that her son has terminal cancer.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2022
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In affected vehicles, the loose bolt increases the chance of the ground terminal melting while the PTC is in use, which could lead to a fire.
—Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 12 Dec. 2022
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Around the same time, her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and died less than a year later, in April of 1996.
—Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
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These saline lakes in the Great Basin are terminal, meaning they are fed by rivers and are a hydrologic endpoint.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
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The port is spending $53 million to upgrade the terminal Carnival’s new ship will use.
—Paul O'Donnell, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
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Then Alan, who’s been diagnosed with terminal cancer, jumps or falls or is pushed off the roof of his country estate, to his death.
—Time, 27 Oct. 2022
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The corporation covers the $600 cost of the terminal and other hook-up gear required to mount the flat-panel antennas high enough to gain a clear view of the sky.
—Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
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It’s located adjacent to the airport and a shuttle will get you to your terminal doors in about five minutes.
—Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2023
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The Senate passed a bill to allow an adult diagnosed with a terminal illness to seek a prescription from a health-care provider to end his or her life.
—Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
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Managing the physical and mental stress of a terminal illness is a full-time job.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
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What was the most important part of playing someone with a terminal illness?
—Evan Romano, Men's Health, 13 Oct. 2022
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The Great Salt Lake is a terminal lake, which means water only leaves it through evaporation.
—Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
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The airport, one of the busiest in the country, is set to receive $27 million to help fund up to 16 new passenger boarding bridges, the walkways passengers use to get to and from a plane to the terminal gate.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 15 Feb. 2024
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An ageing ad exec retires to care for his son who has terminal cancer.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 31 Oct. 2022
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Paula Tzouanakis Anderson, a friend of the family, shared the update on Facebook, adding that the cancer is now terminal.
—Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2022
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Then, on March 6, the wing of one United plane clipped the wing of a second United plane at an adjacent gate as the first plane pulled away from the terminal, airline officials said.
—Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
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While Canada allowed euthanasia six years ago, the practice has been limited to those with a terminal illness over the age of 18.
—Fox News, 1 Dec. 2022
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In the future setting of the documentary, it's revealed that Camila died of a terminal illness.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2023
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At the terminal entrance, a gate agent paused while reviewing Wali’s documents and declared that the spelling of his name on the ticket didn’t match what was on his passport.
—Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
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Like the station at 44th and Washington streets, people can use it to pick up and drop off passengers to reduce traffic jams on the terminal roadways.
—Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2022
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But, on the whole, the contrast between inscrutable machines and terminal human mediocrity is once again supposed to be soothing.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
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Olivia continually frets about her father’s terminal illness, which is later mansplained to the audience by Michael during his tender talk with her.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 13 Mar. 2024
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Then in 2020, Saturday Night Live spent more than eight minutes mocking the airport in a musical extravaganza, calling out birds in the terminal, non-working electrical outlets, and shoddy baggage handling.
—Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Mar. 2024
- You will need to clean the corrosion off the battery terminals.
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That is also when the first phase of the new terminal will open.
—Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2023
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The port is also in the midst of planning a fourth cruise terminal.
—John Wayne Ferguson, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Dec. 2023
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The Lancaster terminal was cleaned out, and the doors rolled down and locked.
—Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
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The harbor terminal opened in 1926 and was the largest building of its kind across all the Great Lakes, according to HistoricDetroit.org.
—Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2023
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As the president turned to watch dancers, draped in purple and black, perform on a stage in front of the terminal, Garcetti paused.
—Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
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In a store, call up Apple Pay or Google Pay on your smartphone and tap it against the payment terminal.
—Ayesha Rascoe, NPR, 7 Apr. 2024
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Responsive data is fired back upward, and then down to the terminal from one of the set of arrays of Lego bricks.
—Matt Day, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
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Murphy went over to a Reuters terminal and pulled up the Wirecard stock listing.
—Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
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Last year, the terminal, Haiti’s largest, was closed over nearly seven weeks due to a gang blockade.
—Evens Sanon and Emmanuel Igunza, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2023
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Flooding also forced the closure of one of the airport's three terminals.
—Jake Offenhartz, Bobby Caina Calvan and Jennifer Peltz The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2023
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Flooding also forced the closure of one of the airport’s three terminals.
—Jake Offenhartz, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
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The Texas airport — one of the busiest in the world — boasts more than 170 different gates across five different terminals.
—Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2024
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Pickup kiosks are across from baggage claim, and the rental car pickup area is outside the terminal's west side.
—Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 1 Aug. 2023
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In the future, the construction of Concourse C could add seven more passenger gates to the west side of the terminal.
—James A. Jones Jr., Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
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Passengers were moved by bus to the terminal, the county spokesperson said.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024
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She was joined by her husband Tom Ackerley at the terminal and stopped to chat and take selfies with fans.
—Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 July 2023
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They were brought to the terminal to retrieve their belongings.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023
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The buildup eventually discharges with a spark that jumps the gap between two terminals, and the process begins again.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 May 2023
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Protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war also shut down the terminal late last month.
—NBC News, 11 Nov. 2023
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Those things will happen whether new export terminals are built or not.
—The Editors, National Review, 30 Jan. 2024
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The bottoms also have a tie belt, which adds a subtle decoration that looks good in the terminal and the office.
—Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 7 Oct. 2023
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But a trend is emerging called cloud gaming, where processing occurs at the edge, which frees the terminal from having to do it.
—David Xie, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
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The package was removed from the airport and the closed portion of the terminal reopened shortly before 2 p.m., the airport spokesperson said.
—Sam Sweeney, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2023
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First, at a private terminal at a commercial airport such as LCY, the handling agent will escort you from the plane and whisk you away from the hordes of hoi polloi.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2024
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In Panama, each person must pay $60 to be bused to Costa Rica’s main terminal.
—David Bolaños Daniele Volpe, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
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Flooding also forced the closure of one of the airport's three terminals for several hours.
—CBS News, 30 Sep. 2023
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No one was injured, but passengers had to use emergency stairs and were bussed to terminals.
—Mateo Rosiles, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2024
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Many passengers who flew into Metro Airport on Thursday morning found a way to walk out of the terminal.
—Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2023
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Dali makes a u-turn away from the terminal and approaches a pair of navigation buoys marking the channel.
—Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
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