pause
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"Mainly the aggression towards Greenland has caused great concern in Iceland and caused many people here to pause and reassess where Iceland belongs."
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The filing responded to a lawsuit by property owners accusing the city of botching the rollout, which led a judge to pause the launch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Then, after a pause, she added an inspired riff: “But I do support the military.”
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
And then a pause, to lower her voice: “We hope it’s sooner rather than later.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Okay,” Katherine said after a pause, and wrote it down.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Before going inside, Duffy pauses to hype up his brood by sharing that none other than Ken Griffin bought one of the original copies of the Constitution to put on public display.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
The backlash is a crisis for AI companies, which are facing bans or pauses on new projects in dozens of states and localities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlash.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
"The systems are designed to withstand technical failures. If a computer crashes or power fails, the timer pauses automatically and resumes on another machine."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Nathan’s hot dogs. New York pastrami, corned beef, baked pretzels, NewYork Italian ices, and don’t forget”—he pauses, dramatic—“Manhattan clam chowder.”
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“What’s up L.A.?” he paused before correcting himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
But the injunction has been paused for months while the administration has pursued appeals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
“I’ve paused and zoomed in on so many frames with this area of his hand exposed and don’t see the tattoos.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The U.S. has paused its attacks and Iranian strikes on commercial ships have gotten more infrequent.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
He paused and looked at each one of us in turn.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Depending on how the rest of the preseason goes for Foster, he may be pausing his real-estate career.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
“CBP is pausing all construction activity in Big Bend National Park while I visit and conduct a personal, on-the-ground evaluation,” Rodney Scott, head of Customs and Border Protection, posted on X Monday.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
President Donald Trump's administration said Monday it was pausing construction on a $1.7 billion border project at Big Bend National Park in Texas that has faced bipartisan opposition.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
OpenAI said in the blog post that it is continuing to benchmark and assess Astra, but is pausing internal work involving the model that doesn’t meet heightened security requirements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It shows a field stretching away away, and in the furrows a family pausing from their work, grinning, all happily.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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