stoppage

Example Sentences

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"Usyk will win by stoppage between rounds four and eight."

From BBC • May 23, 2026

Oleksandr Usyk struck lucky to retain his world heavyweight titles in Egypt with a highly controversial 11th-round stoppage win against boxing novice Rico Verhoeven.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

Any stoppage at Samsung could make that crunch worse and benefit Micron.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

The loose ball ran to Jan Paul van Hecke, who passed to Rutter to score Brighton's stoppage time equaliser.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

But “standard” by then included some remarkable safety technology, like an antilock braking system, which allowed for swifter stoppage time and had first been developed in the 1960s.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel