halting

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Once bond yields start rising, markets could get spooked, halting the current chase higher for markets.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

She calls her accent “a war crime,” and grows frustrated in class that she can’t easily explain what she’s thinking and feeling in her halting English.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

Colombia responded with 50-percent tariffs and by halting electricity sales to Ecuador, which has suffered chronic energy shortages.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

As a result, a leading driver of A.I. spending is halting a lot of the planned investments and infrastructure initiatives that it used to announce on a weekly basis.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Sunlight streamed through windows into classrooms where professors gave halting lectures as they gazed out onto the sun-washed campus.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown