stoppage

Example Sentences

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No baseball games have been missed because of a work stoppage since the strike ended in the spring of 1995.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

The work stoppage starts Monday at 12:01 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

Collina hopes these changes will mean stoppage time is not as long as at the 2022 World Cup.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

A Samsung strike "would almost certainly have been the biggest work stoppage in the history of the global semiconductor industry", South Korean writer and researcher Kap Seol said in an article for US magazine Jacobin.

From Barron's • May 28, 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