paused
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Meanwhile, Polymarket paused trading on its prediction-markets platform after some users said their accounts had been drained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
“The outflows ceased when we paused withdrawal service earlier. We are still working with partners to freeze many of the impacted assets, and have frozen around $3 billion thus far,” it said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Peltola earlier this week paused campaigning activities in order to recover after she and her family sustained "minor injuries" in a car crash.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
We assumed, naively, that my husband’s salary would continue to increase, not that raises would be paused due to university budget concerns, and that once he got tenure, his earnings would essentially plateau.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Callaway paused all the screens with the press of one button on his tablet and looked up, eyebrows raised expectantly.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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