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My acting teacher from drama school would always say, “Give yourself something to do to stop yourself acting.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

The lawsuit seeks emergency relief to stop the agency’s early renewal proceeding and any resulting threat against ABC’s station licenses.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

"Gentlemen, stop screwing around and get over here to help your brothers gear up the parachute. Find yourself a good-looking life companion and get to work," he shouted.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Construction of the “concrete-and-steel superstructure,” they say, has already advanced so far that it would be “practically impossible” to stop now, let alone tear down what has already been built.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

I feel my whole body tingle with rage, and my hands won’t stop shaking.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Instead, they expect a prolonged series of halting starts and stops to the conflict, causing flows through the Strait of Hormuz to continuously fluctuate.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026

It is expected to reach Felixstowe in the United Kingdom on September 7, followed by stops in Hamburg, Germany and Gdynia, Poland later that week, according to a timetable published by Sea Legend.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

Keith Miller wanted the chance to become a head coach after being an assistant to his brother, Jason, who’s coached at Bellflower, Verbum Dei and Leuzinger among his stops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

"But that process also stops them fully degrading and causes toxic chemicals to leach into the environment."

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

I reach for a blouse, but Colin stops me.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Earlier this year, Netflix also stopped funding Meghan’s As Ever company, leaving it to operate independently.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

And then throughout my career, it’s probably the job I’ve been stopped most for.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

But that hasn’t stopped him from using his notoriety to sell merch and pump his $CHUD scamcoin while winking to his online flock.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

A new personalised vaccine given in combination with a drug has stopped skin cancer returning in patients during a trial, representing a potentially watershed moment in cancer treatment.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Maggie stopped kneading, washed her hands, then covered her bowl with the cloths.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

I stopt in my tracks and looked agin and then I seed it was my brother Bill growed to look as old as pa looked a fue years back.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

Harriet was on the point of leaving the room, and only stopt to say, with a very interesting naïveté,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

“Oh no! he had never written, hardly ever, any thing of the kind in his life. The stupidest fellow! He was afraid not even Miss Woodhouse”—he stopt a moment—“or Miss Smith could inspire him.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

At last it stopt at Pluto's gloomy porch; He streightway lighted vpp his pitchy torch.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw

If any Substance is stopt in the Gullet, but without filling up the whole Passage, a Bit of Sponge is introduced, into that Part that is unstopt, and beyond the Substance.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

Customers are demanding refunds and stopping orders over almost-empty boxes and missing ingredients from Blue Apron and Marley Spoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Like actual religion, to continue on versus stopping becomes a question of faith.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Five West Texas sheriffs likewise wrote to federal officials saying advanced surveillance technology would be better suited to stopping undocumented migration in the rugged terrain.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Beneath the shadows of indigo-streaked clouds, a young woman strolls through a fog-covered city, stopping at the base of a skyscraper.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

I was working toward nothing less than the righting of wrongs, turning evil to good, and stopping the craziness that was steadily and surely taking over my valley.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan