Age
Age verb - To become mature.
Cease
Cease verb - To come to an end.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Since Stone-age Warthog was the direct ancestor of the others, they cease to exist, while the city is retroactively turned into a crime-ridden cesspool because WW wasn't around to do anything.
Source: Grandfather Paradox - If that fails completely, interplanetary traffic will all but cease, astropaths (psychics which allow inter-planetary communications) will likely lose their controlling focus as well, and the Age of Strife which splintered humanity once before will seem like a weekend trip to the beach.
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