stopping
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Teams have a hard time stopping the Lions, and the Lions can’t stop anybody.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
She said South Wales Fire and Rescue went to the GE site on Friday, stopping the flow, and dubbed it "a national disaster".
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The shuttle: stops when its front piston enters the water brake, a water filled chamber to cushion stopping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Researchers believe the treatment could eventually offer a new way to combat obesity and potentially help people maintain weight loss after stopping popular weight loss medications.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
“I could tell you, Kathy, but I think I’d rather show you,” he said, then turned away and walked toward the door before stopping in the doorway and facing her again.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
There were so many things going on with the police stoppings and stuff at the time, and it just really hit me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
Smith also likes to push his clarinet above top C or to engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings.
From Time Magazine Archive
People had gold stoppings in their teeth but no spectacles on their noses.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
But now they were no longer checked and halted by the alternate stoppings for set-ups and turning-points, and no longer was Blake encumbered with the care of the level.
From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by George Brehm
Then they sent her to the Redchester dentist, a hitherto sufficient man, who tortured her with tentative stoppings and turned what had been dull and smooth into excitement and jerks.
From The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth von Arnim
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