stoppage
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It took two goals in the final 10 minutes, including one in stoppage time, for his new team to manage a 2-1 victory over Bournemouth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The idea is to cut out those moments which cause supporters real frustration, and get more football played without adding on loads of stoppage time.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Itauma impressed in a fifth-round stoppage of American Jermaine Franklin in Manchester in March and stopped Briton Dillian Whyte in one round in August 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
That stoppage marks the third office-to-residential conversion where work is currently halted since the old Pfizer headquarters neared partial collapse earlier this month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
It encouraged the leaders of twenty-four separate steel worker craft unions to come together under the banner of the AFL and stage a national work stoppage.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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They include food shortages, water contamination, plumbing stoppages, lost mail, and mental health decay, spurring some crew members to jump ship.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
This has led to the stoppages becoming an annoyance not only for supporters, but also for some managers and players.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
The Labor Department recorded 470 work stoppages involving 1,000 or more employees that year—more than 15 times as many as last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
With the 2026 World Cup taking place at the peak of thunderstorm season in several host cities, we are highly likely to see stoppages again.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Before 1919 was over, in an unprecedented demonstration of labor unrest, there would be thirty-six hundred work stoppages involving four million workers or one-fifth of the nation’s labor force.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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