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

Arsenal were leading 1-0 deep into stoppage time through Leandro Trossard's 83rd-minute goal when West Ham substitute Callum Wilson hammered home a finish in a packed penalty box following a corner.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

His only blemish remains a draw with Frazer Clarke, a result he emphatically avenged with a first-round stoppage.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

The league and the NFL Referees Assn. have avoided a work stoppage by agreeing on a new collective bargaining agreement that runs through the 2032 season.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 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