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stopping

[stop-ing] / ˈstɒp ɪŋ /


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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

Vanguard CIOs are more likely to establish stopping rules at two points in the life cycle—pilots and production—said Alicia Mullery, VP analyst at Gartner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Stopping under the VSC saves about 10 seconds versus stopping under racing conditions.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 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

They walked all morning without stopping for food or water: crossing boggy valleys choked with chattering aspen; climbing hills darkened by ever-wakeful pines.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

For nearly twenty hours—since nine o'clock last night—my thoughts have been such a series of jerks, stoppings, leapings forward and dead stops again as only once before in my life I have known.

From The Debit Account by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

I went to a dentist once, who professed to stop teeth without giving pain, and the beggar did stop my teeth without pain; but did they stay in, those stoppings?

From The Island Pharisees by John Galsworthy

Large stoppings showed like shadows behind the thin shells of the upper front ones.

From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Dorothy Miller Richardson


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