stalled
Example Sentences
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The new owners of the stalled Oceanwide project in downtown Los Angeles have agreed to start cleaning up the embarrassing splash of color on the city’s skyline even before they have finished formally acquiring it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Mr. Putnam notes that gains in black homeownership, which “improved significantly between 1930 and 1970,” later stalled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Steep ascents, hairpin bends and stretches of unpaved road have added to the difficulties facing this tourist town, whose visitors have unsurprisingly stopped visiting while fish sales have stalled.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
That legislation has been stalled in the Senate for months.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Only Calliope, in the second row, is motionless, her desk stalled somehow, so that she’s the only one who takes in the true extent of the metamorphoses around her.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
