stoppage

Example Sentences

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Any stoppage at Samsung could make that crunch worse and benefit Micron.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Play did not resume, with eight minutes of stoppage time having been announced at the end of the regulation 90.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

The NFL and its referees association have a new collective bargaining agreement, avoiding a work stoppage and hopefully anything like 2012’s botched ‘Fail Mary’ call.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026

From the 80th minute to the final whistle, including five agonizing minutes of stoppage time, they could hardly keep the ball.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

It encouraged the leaders of twenty-four separate steel worker craft unions to come together under the banner of the AFL and stage a national work stoppage.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler