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stopped

ADJECTIVE
at a halt
Synonyms


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It stopped transmitting at 16:37, a few miles north east of Drymen in Stirling.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Police didn’t identify the community member who stopped the shooter.

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

At least that was where it stopped for other people.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom


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