halting
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“I felt like I just didn’t know I wanted to keep doing it,” Brockman said, his voice halting.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
The original developer, Beijing-based Oceanwide Holdings, spent about $1.2 billion on the project before running out of money in 2019 and halting construction at about 60% completion.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Because of its popularity, England said the company started exploring moving some of its production to Canada just weeks after provincial liquor boards began halting their orders.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
Despite last year's progress, global forest loss remains 70 percent above the level required to meet the 2030 goal of halting and reversing forest loss, the researchers said.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
This one battle to patent radioactive salt threatened to extinguish all this goodwill, slowing down the propagation of the cyclotron if not halting it altogether.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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