stopped
Example Sentences
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“The buck stopped here,” Solimene wrote in a goodbye email to colleagues.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The 63-year-old model-train enthusiast told Dickens, who stopped for a chat, he was there for his best friend, Roy, who died several years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
"When I stopped, a policeman came to my car door. I wound down the window, and he told me to open my car, so I did."
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
In preclinical studies, the antibody stopped both tumor growth and metastatic spread in an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
He stopped frequently at my bench, the first weeks, more to check my frame of mind than my work.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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