halted

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Within seconds, the vehicle was halted off the 60 Freeway exit at Country Village Road, and the suspect was left as powerless as a rodeo calf on its side.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

Soon NotPetya halted operations at nearly one-third of Ukraine’s banks; Ukrainian newspapers, as well as transportation and energy firms, were also significantly disrupted.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

By 1980, a sanction on Iran halted nearly all trade, and over 93% of pistachio consumption in the U.S. that year came from within the country.

From Salon • May 6, 2026

The upheaval fed into Venezuela's preexisting isolation, with most major international airlines having already halted connections to the country given the government's enormous unpaid debt.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

He halted the entire regiment outside the barn and turned to Log-a-Log.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques