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[stop] / stɒp /






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Drivers need to stop after 11 hours to rest; driverless trucks don’t, saving both time and fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Austen will never go out of style because we’re not going to reach a point when we stop worrying about money, status and the gobsmacking difficulty of telling someone you love them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Eventually, the yield gets high enough that investors stop asking how much further bond prices can fall and start asking how much they should buy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Australia has set out to make its legislation tighter to stop this.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

He goes to a different school now, but that doesn’t stop him from inviting her to every party he throws.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

"It stops your life progressing. You're just vegetating your life away," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Even as Bass embarked on a 22-year political career that has seen stops in Sacramento, Washington and City Hall, the native Angeleno always, successfully depicted herself as a political outsider.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

If you don’t renew, the band stops working, but you can still use the cuff for one-off readings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Edge rusher Byron Young had 2½ sacks, and linemen Kobie Turner, Braden Fiske and Poona Ford were among those who helped the defense make multiple key stops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

“Also”—she stops, her hand on the doorknob—“Ana Lopez is a nice girl.”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

Many legal residents have stopped showing up to work or fled to other parts of the country out of fear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Kim maintained a hiring pause, stopped merit raises and took “a hard look at a lot of our administrative expenses and our operations,” he told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Just like then, the bad news kept coming, but prices stopped falling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

She claimed the resident's eyesight was "very poor" so she had held the card for her, showed her where she should sign and stopped her from signing over the printed words in the card.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

But then again, it did have a sort of mid-twentieth-century look, and its history always seemed clouded, like no one’s stories about the place ever matched your own, so you stopped offering others your details.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

“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

Harriet was on the point of leaving the room, and only stopt to say, with a very interesting naïveté,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

A certain Person swallowed a large Morsel of Calf's Lights, which stopt in the Middle of the Gullet, and exactly filled up the Passage.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

Jones minor stopt at home two days arfter.

From A Terrible Tomboy by Angela Brazil

Back in the spring, before “La Bola Negra” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Guitarrica embarked on his first U.S. tour, stopping in Los Angeles at the Roxy in March.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 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

For Kim, stopping defections is essential to maintaining absolute control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Yes. Well, not always. There is Captain, a good, if quiet, friend. And then of course there are the wandering souls, who—” A realization walloped Clare, stopping him mid-thought.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman


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