stopped
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A couple of hundred fans gathered beneath the market's Victorian roof, some having made the trip specifically for the event while others stopped to see what the fuss was about.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 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
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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