halted

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“The improvement we have been seeing effectively gets halted here,” says Jim Egan, Morgan Stanley’s U.S. housing strategist.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

That halted the verification of the petition signatures, leaving the potential for a referendum in limbo.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

A ceasefire on April 8 halted the conflict, but negotiation efforts, including historic face to face talks hosted in Islamabad have so far failed to yield a lasting agreement.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

The nonprofit group also collected more than 130,000 signatures calling for the execution to be halted to allow for "necessary fingerprint and DNA testing".

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Mr. Flux halted his Time Suck, then stood tall on its back, like when Sheed stood on his bike seat while it was still rolling, nearly giving Grandma a heart attack.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles