stoppage

Example Sentences

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Local 11’s SoFi Stadium workers overwhelmingly voted late last week to authorize a strike, which means a work stoppage could have started anytime.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

The work stoppage occurred as the UAW contract with the plant expired at midnight Monday without a new deal in place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Prenga arrives with a deceptively eye-catching record of 20 wins, all by stoppage, and one defeat.

From BBC • 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

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