stopper
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Canadian 19-year-old right-hander Michelle Roche plays college baseball in British Columbia while 38-year-old veteran Meggie Meidlinger has been a bullpen stopper for the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
He turned into a trusted defensive stopper, timely three-point shooter and steady leader for the team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Bridges is another key to New York’s playoff rampage, a stopper on defense who’s suddenly reborn offensively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
Oliver Kahn was in goal for that agonising, stoppage-time turnaround against Manchester United - two years later, the German stopper would prove Bayern Munich's hero against a vintage Valencia in Milan.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Shady handed Jinx a gallon jug with a cork stopper.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
Originally made in the 1800s for carrying beer, glass bottles with stoppers are popular, thanks to their classic design.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
But with football continuing to evolve, goalkeepers are not just shot stoppers and used as deep-lying playmakers to open up a new dimension of play.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
But the lack of individual stoppers has been problematic the last two games, the Lakers struggling to stop scorers when they get hot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2025
But as the Kent E-FIT debacle reminds us, such pencil pushers still have a lot to teach our modern-day crime stoppers, and even the fanciest image model can’t beat a trained sketch artist just yet.
From Slate ● May 1, 2024
There was lemon soda in thick bottles with blue marble stoppers to keep the fizz in.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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