stopper
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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
While stumbling over the lyrics to “Matchmaker,” “Fiddler” cast members suddenly appeared on stage, performing the song with him; they closed down the number with a rousing rendition of the show stopper “Tradition.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Manninger made 42 appearances for Juventus, filling in for injured first-choice stopper Gianluigi Buffon.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
Drivers have long wanted to put a permanent stopper on stop-start.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Little Tzipporah lay curled in a ball, her finger in her mouth like a stopper in a bottle.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
Originally made in the 1800s for carrying beer, glass bottles with stoppers are popular, thanks to their classic design.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
There was lemon soda in thick bottles with blue marble stoppers to keep the fizz in.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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