End
End verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
Take effect is an antonym for end.
Take effect
Take effect verb - Go into effect or become effective or operative.
Both terms in one sentence
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At the point the episode was released (1990), a peace treaty was seen as utterly inconceivable, let alone that it would take effect by the end of that decade.
Source: The Great Politics Mess-Up - An idea that Monty Python considered for Flying Circus was to have an episode that got gradually softer, so that people would keep turning up the volume, and at the end of the show, this trope would take effect deafeningly.
Source: Ridiculously Loud Commercial
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