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stopping

[stop-ing] / ˈstɒp ɪŋ /


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Raman said she had used the phrase “gold standard” to describe Special Order 40, which was issued by Gates in 1979, prohibiting officers from stopping people for the sole purpose of determining their immigration status.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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

Is there a way of stopping repeat shoplifting?

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Produce supplier Taylor Farms is stopping iceberg lettuce sales from central Mexico between May 1 and Aug. 31, starting next year, after a widespread cyclospora outbreak sickened thousands in the U.S.,

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Emma places one finger on my lips, stopping me mid-sentence.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

There were so many things going on with the police stoppings and stuff at the time, and it just really hit me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020

Smith also likes to push his clarinet above top C or to engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings.

From Time Magazine Archive

People had gold stoppings in their teeth but no spectacles on their noses.

From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But now they were no longer checked and halted by the alternate stoppings for set-ups and turning-points, and no longer was Blake encumbered with the care of the level.

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by George Brehm

He roused the men, and the stoppings were at once removed from the loopholes.

From The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty


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