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stopped

adjective as in at a halt

Strongest matches

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Americans would benefit from higher take-home pay and greater purchasing power if only the Federal Reserve’s leadership stopped defending its mistakes and started correcting them.

With the score at 21-0, Scotland simply stopped, while Argentina started to crank through the gears.

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By high school, he says he figured out how much they could help him and stopped worrying what people thought.

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“It stopped feeling like good luck, and started feeling like a nuisance.”

Speaking to the club's in-house media after the match, Diamonds first team manager Elliot Sandy said the referee stopped the match while the culprit was removed from the ground.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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