stopper
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But that wasn’t enough to serve as the team’s new stopper, as the Dodgers’ offense fell flat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Canadian 19-year-old right-hander Michelle Roche plays college baseball in British Columbia while 38-year-old veteran Meggie Meidlinger has been a bullpen stopper for the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Bridges is another key to New York’s playoff rampage, a stopper on defense who’s suddenly reborn offensively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Manninger made 42 appearances for Juventus, filling in for injured first-choice stopper Gianluigi Buffon.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
Poppy lifted out a deep blue vessel with a wide round mouth and a clay stopper.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
Originally made in the 1800s for carrying beer, glass bottles with stoppers are popular, thanks to their classic design.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
But with football continuing to evolve, goalkeepers are not just shot stoppers and used as deep-lying playmakers to open up a new dimension of play.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
As teams build their rosters each offseason, they look for shooters such as Knecht, for defensive stoppers such as Jarred Vanderbilt, for offensive initiators or enforcers or for shot blockers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
But as the Kent E-FIT debacle reminds us, such pencil pushers still have a lot to teach our modern-day crime stoppers, and even the fanciest image model can’t beat a trained sketch artist just yet.
From Slate ● May 1, 2024
Some filled tubes, others inserted rubber stoppers, sealed tubes, or stacked them inside a walk-in incubator where they stayed until being packaged for shipping.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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