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It’s that we’ve become so accustomed to conducting ordinary life through our phones that we rarely stop to consider whether they’re necessary to the transaction in the first place.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

But she would not stop posting her videos, because she felt it was her duty to make a stand.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

“If that is what happened here, the critical question is why authentication safeguards, access restrictions, and monitoring systems failed to detect and stop the unauthorized activity.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

You can force yourself to stop eating— “I’m just going to put that french fry down.”

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

Nobody and nothing was going to stop me.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

And it rarely stops at the host stand.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

The 2027 Banana Ball Championship League tour will visit 79 stadiums across 74 cities, including the first-ever international stops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

"It stops your life progressing. You're just vegetating your life away," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

A brother who stops his friends from committing a crime is more loyal than one who goes along.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

When she sees Father Julien, she stops him and whispers, “Do you have anything you shouldn’t have?”

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

IBF champion Hrgovic, whom Dubois stopped in June 2024, entered the ring afterwards, with both men keen on a rematch.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Several of the students said their friends had stopped reading books, and they believed it would eventually damage society as a whole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Kim maintained a hiring pause, stopped merit raises and took “a hard look at a lot of our administrative expenses and our operations,” he told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Just like then, the bad news kept coming, but prices stopped falling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

But then again, it did have a sort of mid-twentieth-century look, and its history always seemed clouded, like no one’s stories about the place ever matched your own, so you stopped offering others your details.

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

Of Substances stopt between the Mouth and the Stomach —— 411 Chap.

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

Sir John went down the steps; the captain was following; I stopt him, and said, Pray don't go, captain, let you and I drink a glass of wine.

From State Trials Vol. 2 (of 2) Political and Social by Various

One the Chargers will have trouble stopping, as they’ll also be without key defensive players such as safety Derwin James Jr.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

The intensity soon caught up with Wales though, who by the half-hour mark looked exhausted compared to their opponents, who never showed signs of stopping.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Researchers believe the treatment could eventually offer a new way to combat obesity and potentially help people maintain weight loss after stopping popular weight loss medications.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Celebrities are sometimes spotted at the market, and this month New York resident and filmmaker Spike Lee was stopping for pictures with fellow shoppers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

The words came flying out of my mouth without stopping to ask permission from my brain.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler