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stoplight

[stop-lahyt] / ˈstɒpˌlaɪt /


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A road rage incident at a stoplight in Hollywood a few years ago, triggered by Lee’s delayed response to a green light, became the catalyst for the first season.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

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 city, like the country, operated on a red-orange-yellow-green stoplight system, and Sheinbaum wanted to go to “red” as case numbers rose.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2024

Marcus smiles and jerks the truck to the left so that we don’t hit a fallen stoplight.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth




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