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Example Sentences
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The new bill will also pave the way for new targets on halting declines in nature, with the aim for there to be "clear recovery" by 2050.
From BBC
The group also swung to a net loss for the quarter, which was less pronounced than feared, and said it planned to halt dividends for 2025.
After losing the US donations, "more than 50% of our funding portfolio for Yemen went away", leading to a complete halt of operations in northern Yemen, she adds.
From BBC
Pakistan has been pressing Taliban authorities in Kabul to halt what it says are attacks by Afghan forces and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, a group of Pakistani militants based across the border.
In the end, it took a top artificial-intelligence startup to halt a market panic that has tanked the value of software vendors by hundreds of billions of dollars.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
