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Idiom

come to an end

Meaning

To stop; to cease; to no longer continue.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“The long summer vacation has finally come to an end.”

“We were sad when the concert came to an end after the band played their final song.”

“As the era of rapid industrial growth came to an end, the city faced the difficult task of reinventing its entire local economy.”

Examples

simple

“The long summer vacation has finally come to an end.”

contextual

“We were sad when the concert came to an end after the band played their final song.”

complex

“As the era of rapid industrial growth came to an end, the city faced the difficult task of reinventing its entire local economy.”

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