heart-stopping

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Manager Dave Roberts refused to anoint Ohtani as his Game 7 starter after the Dodgers’ heart-stopping 3-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

Thousands flocked to the city of Weimar for a recent festival that celebrated the linguistic tradition with workshops, cabaret performances and even heart-stopping circus acrobatics.

From Barron's • Oct. 26, 2025

It’s both heart-stopping and frighteningly believable, a tale of desire and destruction that will go down as the definitive take on the vampire for this generation.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024

Now they return to the Basin Reserve, scene of a heart-stopping one-run defeat in 2023.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2024

Doon had never seen anything that moved so fast, and he had never heard such a thunderous, heart-stopping roar.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau