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The AMOC has captured the popular imagination because of its depiction in the lurid sci-fi film “The Day After Tomorrow,” in which various disastrous events occur after a sudden halting of the current.

The regime, meanwhile, has its own incentives for halting the violence in the city.

What potential damage has the halting of research on psychedelics caused?

And then Sotloff is presented to the camera and Obama is challenged to save him by halting the bombing.

In the longer term, she sees big strides in preventing tartar build-up and halting receding gums.

After four years of a halting recovery, Bernanke said, things are looking up.

Halting his squad, Lawrence dismounted, and taking Harry, they carefully made their way to the brow of a hill which lay in front.

Mr. Middleton, with shaking limbs and halting footsteps, assisted his wife to her room.

Beneath this melodrama, the circumstances are recounted at great length, and some halting verses conclude the mournful narration.

Varney was on his way to the house before the footman had finished his halting explanation.

Some leap to the strains with unapt foot, and make a halting figure in the universal dance.

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On this page you'll find 58 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to halting, such as: awkward, clumsy, labored, stumbling, tentative, and bumbling.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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