shut down

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But in recent months, as prosecutors battled the Justice companies in court over subpoenas for records, the Office of the Deputy Attorney General shut down the probe.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

Protests have intensified the already glacial traffic in Mexico City, where authorities fear the teachers will follow through on their threat to shut down roads before the opening game.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

But USAID’s disease surveillance system was largely shut down along with the organization.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

I was at the reopening of the Thomas Mann House, shut down for months of cleaning after it had miraculously survived the Palisades fire.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

By the end of the month, half the steel industry, including almost all the mills in Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Wheeling, West Virginia; Lackawanna, New York; and Youngstown, Ohio, had shut down.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler