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Heeding the advice of public health experts, they quickly shut down businesses, enacted shelter-in-place orders, and built up testing and contact tracing capacity.

Major Hollywood movie studios largely shut down film production in March.

And the series was implausibly shut out by both the Golden Globe and SAG Awards.

A train had actually arrived at the station but its doors were already shut.

“I was really sexually inexperienced, really sexually shut down,” she explained.

And so it was that the federal government did not shut down just when we all had visions of sugar plumbs dancing in our heads.

Human trials of the Ebola vaccine have been temporarily shut down due to adverse side effects.

Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.

After his death crowds flocked to his grave to touch his holy monument, till the authorities caused the church yard to be shut.

The gnarled hands shut up into clenched fists, and the feeble voice trailed off in an agonized moan.

He shut his fist and hit Butterface a weak but well intended right-hander on the nose.

The Professor went straight home and shut himself up in his study.