froze
Example Sentences
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JLR froze production for more than one month owing to the attack, gradually resuming output in October.
From Barron's
Around Labor Day, Citi froze all of the accounts that had come in through the link, preventing people from using the cards or accessing any points.
"They had no idea about deafness. They had no real incentive to try and sort out this problem. They just sort of froze."
From BBC
Recently, Maike Kittelmann, a cell biologist at Oxford Brookes University, and her colleagues froze comb jelly larvae so that they could get a microscopic look at their nervous system.
From New York Times
Reynders said that while other EU member nations each froze 2-4 billion euros worth of Russian assets, Cyprus’ reported sum of around 100 million euros “seems to be a little low.”
From Seattle Times
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