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In his comeback fight, Anthony Joshua suffered two early knockdowns but recovered to dramatically stop Kristian Prenga in the second round in Saudi Arabia, to remain on course for a meeting with Tyson Fury.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Then again, it would be largely futile for publicly held banks to stop filing quarterly reports with the SEC.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

What if parents try to shut down conversations, saying anything about future care is premature because they are in good health, or they stop listening when adult children suggest they need help?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Last week, the Writers Guild of America separately filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the merger, alleging that writers would encounter less work and lower pay should Paramount buy Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

The drumbeats from the parking lot came to a stop, allowing a moment of quiet to settle over the drive-in—a peaceful pocket of rest where one song ended, and another began.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

These raised features appear while the rifts are still moving or soon after the movement stops.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

But when Mr. Jones turns to what legislators and judges should actually do with this understanding, he stops short, taking pains to distinguish between the biology we inherit and the values we choose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Cancino has appealed his termination, arguing that other officers in his unit carried out more of the problematic stops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

A lump sum, equivalent of 25% of the annual ministerial salary, is payable when a minister stops holding office.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Of course there is no Psalm 166; the Psalter stops with 150.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The local gamekeeper had stopped the hare coursers three or four times.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

"It is a shame, young people are dying... All this has to be stopped," Tokayev said sitting next to Putin in televised comments.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

Carl Reiner similarly declared: “I saw what I thought was the funniest ad-libbed thing I had ever seen. It was a riot, and we never stopped laughing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Then Anthropic stopped allowing third-party operating systems to run on its subscriptions, which it saw as a violation of its terms of service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

I glance at it, try to see what he wants while she’s talking, but then I realize she’s stopped.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Harriet was on the point of leaving the room, and only stopt to say, with a very interesting naïveté,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

I stopt in my tracks and looked agin and then I seed it was my brother Bill growed to look as old as pa looked a fue years back.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

“Oh no! he had never written, hardly ever, any thing of the kind in his life. The stupidest fellow! He was afraid not even Miss Woodhouse”—he stopt a moment—“or Miss Smith could inspire him.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

By these Means the Vomiting has been stopt; and the Patient, upon going out of the Bath, has had several large Stools, which very considerably diminished the Violence of the Disease.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

The Super-purgation, the excessive Discharge, is to be stopt, after having plied the Patient plentifully with diluting Drinks, by giving the calming Anodyne Medicines directed in the Removal of acute Pains, § 536, Nº.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Paramount’s decision came after a California federal court had granted a temporary restraining order stopping the deal from closing in 28 days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The result was hit by a 500-million-euro charge the carmaker booked for stopping US production of its electric ID.4, Volkswagen said, as well as "negative mix effects", meaning the automotive giant sold more lower-margin products.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

“After stopping the attack, they immediately transitioned from addressing the threat to providing lifesaving medical care until firefighters arrived.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Agents could follow people and arrest them after they left their cars, he explained, while stopping people inside moving vehicles could place officers in greater danger.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

Nim ordered, and ran all the way to the cave and back again without even stopping to look out to sea.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr