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stop

[stop] / stɒp /






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"I don't know how it's going to turn out, I can't stop thinking about it," he said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

On the Sunshine Coast, visitors regularly stop to take photos next to The Big Pineapple, a heritage-listed 16m-tall fibreglass model of the fruit, which has become a local landmark.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

For coffee, Bacha Coffee is always my first stop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Many people will stop reading right now because honestly, do you care what happens to those on death row?

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

But I force myself to stop and take a breath.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

That duo’s relationship is given an unfamiliar portrayal—Churchill groveling for American support, FDR being something of a swine, who never stops sneering at the French for 1940.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

When the music finally stops, the question is not simply who will lead next.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

Cardiopulmonary arrest, also called cardiac arrest, is when a person’s heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops beating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

"King says slavery was 'monstrous'," reads the paper's headline, although he "stops short of apologising".

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

A tawny motorcycle whizzes by and suddenly stops.

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

Many of these kitchens had stopped operating when the army retook control of the capital and expelled the RSF in March 2025.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

But buybacks, the bigger and more flexible way they return cash to shareholders, have stopped.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Several rushed to circulate circumspect statements that stopped short of opposition, while others stayed silent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Instead of reflecting a system that has simply stopped distinguishing between different memories, these responses might involve a brain mechanism that shifts too quickly from recognizing safety to anticipating danger.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Neither heat nor thirst stopped Don Quixote; there was only adventure in his mind.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

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

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

And as I was passing by, I stopt the coach at captain Goodere's lodgings in Princes Street.

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

By these Means the Vomiting has been stopt; and the Patient, upon going out of the Bath, has had several large Stools, which very considerably diminished the Violence of the Disease.

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

Executives said then that the chain’s most loyal customers were stopping by stores less frequently.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

The trucks at Yimin operate 24 hours a day, stopping only for six minutes to swap out their batteries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

"In fact they got weaker. And once society found its voice and rose up, there was no way of stopping it."

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

By disrupting the membrane's stability, it causes the infected cell to die, stopping the viral infection from spreading.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

For three days we walked through the nights, stopping at daybreak to dig a new hiding spot to sleep away the day.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman


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