shuts off
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To prevent overuse, it automatically shuts off after 20 minutes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
“What’s key about 6.5% is it essentially shuts off the refi wave,” said Scott Buchta, head of fixed-income strategy at Brean Capital.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 25, 2026
“No country in the Western Hemisphere has ever suffered a blockade that shuts off its primary source of export revenue,” said Francisco Rodriguez, a Venezuelan economist at the University of Denver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
George, our safety driver, did not touch the controls once and a big red button, which shuts off the automated system immediately, was not deployed.
From BBC ● May 18, 2025
He shuts off the radio, drives in silence through the cold, bleak afternoon, through the flat, charmless town he will never visit again.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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