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After its follow-up drive went nowhere, Louisiana made the mistake of punting to Mosley, who took off sprinting to his right and didn’t stop until he reached paydirt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Dion also "endeared herself" to the crowd by saying during one song that she wanted to stop and start over.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Macron will stop there on his way to New York, where he is due to attend the UN General Assembly.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
They can’t stop rivals from destroying the world, but they can decide they don’t want to be part of that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Sancho, the niece, and the housekeeper could not stop sobbing.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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In this version of the story, A.I. stops being a tool and acts as a being that behaves in accordance with its own worldview.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
That additional detection system means the cells may still be able to recognize and kill a tumor cell even if it stops displaying NY-ESO-1.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
The newest leg will include additional stops across several locations including Los Angeles, where he will take over the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on April 23 and 24 with some assistance from Kylie Minogue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Rubio arrived in Lima after stops in Colombia and Ecuador, where he welcomed closer coordination against criminal gangs that Washington now describes as terrorist organizations.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The dog stops beside it at the order counter, where an older woman in a green apron tosses a gristly piece of meat into his mouth.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Thirty-six years after Nigel Benn stopped Iran Barkley in the opening round in Las Vegas, his son was chasing his own defining night.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Roughly one billion years after its formation, volcanic activity may already have largely stopped, leaving the planet covered by a solid, continuous rocky crust.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Imagine a stopped cable car sitting at the top of a steep hill in San Francisco.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Garber was focused on Stuart Zimmer, an under-the-radar billionaire investor who with his wife had pledged $100 million to Harvard in 2018, but stopped funding the gift in the campus aftermath of the Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
You could scarcely draw breath, and not every farmer had stopped by the trough on the way here.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Harriet was on the point of leaving the room, and only stopt to say, with a very interesting naïveté,
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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“Oh no! he had never written, hardly ever, any thing of the kind in his life. The stupidest fellow! He was afraid not even Miss Woodhouse”—he stopt a moment—“or Miss Smith could inspire him.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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I stopt in my tracks and looked agin and then I seed it was my brother Bill growed to look as old as pa looked a fue years back.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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The moment I opened the door of his closett, I stopt short.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
If any Substance is stopt in the Gullet, but without filling up the whole Passage, a Bit of Sponge is introduced, into that Part that is unstopt, and beyond the Substance.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
Abortion was legalised in 1978, but Bonino was already campaigning hard on other issues, from the liberalisation of soft drugs to stopping nuclear power.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
But stopping industries from harming the rest of us seems like a task for the government.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Asked by The Times on Wednesday what was stopping him from demanding Venezuela set a firm election date, Trump was blunt: “I just don’t think they are ready yet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
"I can't see anyone stopping Arsenal," former Premier League winner Chris Sutton told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Emma places one finger on my lips, stopping me mid-sentence.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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