estopped
Example Sentences
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No matter how glibly presented, however, an “evolved” legal position may be estopped.
From Slate • Oct. 28, 2019
Receipt of the Message in confidence automatically estopped all news speculation as to its contents.
From Time Magazine Archive
The seven estopped companies are: Commonwealth Telephone Co., a subsidiary of Associated Telephone Utilities Co., serving in Wisconsin communities against 102 served by A. T. & T.'s unit.
From Time Magazine Archive
“And he’d be all, ‘Well, we were playeeng un concierto een the palacio weeth Esteban and Julio, and then we estopped when thee pretty lady came een.’”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
As so often happens, the short story estopped Balzac from some of his usual delinquencies—over-detail, lingering treatment, etc.,—and encouraged his virtues—intensity, grandeur, and idiosyncratic tone.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
