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The Orange County's Building Safety's office on Thursday posted a stop work order at the warehouse where animals had been housed.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

The kind that document the midday meals of artists and designers who stop work, deliberately, to eat something composed and beautiful.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

He said crews were trained to stop work when they find tree roots and switch from using a backhoe to digging by hand to protect them.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

On Monday, a judge lifted the stop work order for one project off Rhode Island, but the other four that were under construction remain stalled, losing millions of dollars each day.

From Barron's • Jan. 13, 2026

Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker were sitting comfortably in deckchairs nearby, sipping tall glasses of fizzy lemonade and watching him to see that he didn’t stop work for one moment.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl




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