stopped
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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
His expressive handling of broad color areas may be abruptly stopped by a fussy attention to his personnel’s facial features, as if a Victorian code of good painterly behavior were suddenly reasserting itself.
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
Neither heat nor thirst stopped Don Quixote; there was only adventure in his mind.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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