stoplight

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Beckstrom grew up in a tiny community of homes cradled in the Appalachian Mountains on a ridge above a town of roughly 700 people that has the only stoplight in a county of 8,000 people.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

The annual parade and festival, which is in its fifth year, is held in La Center, a southwest Washington town of 4,300 that doesn’t have a stoplight.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2025

The shadows of trees in a car’s headlights; a stoplight swaying softly in the wind while it changes color; the sensation that something peculiar will inevitably appear the longer a car stays in motion.

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2025

When the couple reached the stoplight, police said, Wilson got out of the car and got into an argument with the woman.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2024

The deserted stoplight creaked as it swung, and that little lonesome moan of a sound broke open whatever was already cracked inside me.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry