stopped
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Kloeckner said its management and supervisory boards believe the delisting offer from majority owner Worthington Steel is in shareholders’ best interests, but stopped short of recommending its acceptance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“The buck stopped here,” Solimene wrote in a goodbye email to colleagues.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
But once Spain lifted the World Cup trophy on Sunday, almost every trace of football on Nauru stopped.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
In preclinical studies, the antibody stopped both tumor growth and metastatic spread in an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Almost at once it stopped again, then again crawled forward.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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