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

Dubois survived two early knockdowns to dethrone fellow Briton Wardley with an 11th-round stoppage in Manchester on Saturday.

From BBC • May 15, 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

Yes, there was warning—years of it, in fact—but public service announcements about conservation are a whole lot different from a total stoppage.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman