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stopped

adjective as in at a halt

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Hundreds of families have had their child benefit payments stopped because they returned to Northern Ireland via Dublin airport.

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Only, to everyone’s confusion, the officials ruled that Hurts’s forward progress had been stopped before the fumble—thereby ending the play and nullifying the fumble.

In Los Angeles, where we built a light rail line that stopped two miles from the airport, we have a train station two miles from Dodger Stadium.

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A couple of years ago, one mom stopped him in the parking lot at school to say she was withdrawing her child from the district because its teaching didn’t align with her values.

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That gummed up financing and logistics for Arctic LNG 2 and stopped South Korean shipbuilders from delivering to the project.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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