stoppage

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As with earlier strikes, during the 2019 teachers walkout, administrators crossed teachers’ picket lines to keep schools open and hold things together — overseeing food distribution and student supervision during the six-day work stoppage.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

CAF stripped Senegal of its title on March 17, over the team's angry departure from the pitch after a penalty was awarded to Morocco late in second-half stoppage time.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

The NFL is taking proactive steps to limit the possibility of a work stoppage involving the referees’ union, but could the league’s plans backfire?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Briton Moses Itauma reinforced his status as one of heavyweight boxing's brightest stars with a destructive fifth-round stoppage of Jermaine Franklin at Manchester's Co-op Live Arena.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

But “standard” by then included some remarkable safety technology, like an antilock braking system, which allowed for swifter stoppage time and had first been developed in the 1960s.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel