grinding halt

AI companies often argue that it would be impossible for them to license all the content that they need and that doing so would bring progress to a grinding halt.

That in 2023, with the film industry still in recovery from the COVID-19 shutdown, it would be perfectly fine to allow writing and production to come to a grinding halt again.

"It was a very strange situation. The city came to a grinding halt. The news started filtering of some of the horrible stuff that was happening in Delhi."

It says a lot about Toney's mental state that after suffering the devastation of having his career brought to a grinding halt, he should respond by taking the chance to chill out.

Sensors attached to equipment are also listening out for indications of hardware faults, having been trained to recognise sounds of weary machines that risk bringing production lines to a grinding halt.