Cease to be
End and cease to be are semantically related. In some cases you can use "End" instead a verb phrase "Cease to be".
End
End verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
Cease to be and end are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cease to be" instead a verb "End".
Both terms in one sentence
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HeelFace Turn: Haruka and Touma basically cease to be antagonists in any meaningful sense of the word long before the end of the show until Touma suddenly enters the Competence Zone in the finale, but even then he does a face turn at the very end.
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At the end is an ironic twist - that in one very real sense, the world you dream will inevitably stop and cease to be - at the moment of your own death.
Source: Dream Apocalypse -
Since hyperspace in this setting isn't a place where unprotected objects can exist for long, this generally means that such things either end up in a random alternate universe with usually no way back (if they're lucky) or cease to be altogether.
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