stopper

Canadian 19-year-old right-hander Michelle Roche plays college baseball in British Columbia while 38-year-old veteran Meggie Meidlinger has been a bullpen stopper for the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

The Athletic Club stopper kept seven clean sheets and was only beaten by Belgium's Charles de Ketelaere in the quarter-final tie.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

He turned into a trusted defensive stopper, timely three-point shooter and steady leader for the team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Jelly-legged stopper Jerzy Dudek was the shootout hero and Gerrard's miracle was complete.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

Devi swabbed the bottle’s stopper with a clear substance and slid it into the mouth of the bottle.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Originally made in the 1800s for carrying beer, glass bottles with stoppers are popular, thanks to their classic design.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

But with football continuing to evolve, goalkeepers are not just shot stoppers and used as deep-lying playmakers to open up a new dimension of play.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025

But as the Kent E-FIT debacle reminds us, such pencil pushers still have a lot to teach our modern-day crime stoppers, and even the fanciest image model can’t beat a trained sketch artist just yet.

From Slate ● May 1, 2024

Enter 36-year-old Ercan Aydinlik, a mini-soccer aficionado in Istanbul who launched a rent-a-goalkeeper service to address the shortage of shot stoppers.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

Some filled tubes, others inserted rubber stoppers, sealed tubes, or stacked them inside a walk-in incubator where they stayed until being packaged for shipping.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot