- present participle of stop.
stopping
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After stopping the Eagles and forcing a turnover on downs, the Rams’ offense suddenly sprang to life with two touchdown drives spanning 177 yards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
It’s very difficult when you’re stopping and going and nowadays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
China is "not building one base in Laos and stopping", he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Whether it’s contributing to charity, stopping to talk to an elderly neighbor or, as you say, giving something — however modest — to a homeless person, every little bit helps.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
He moves among our group quietly, stopping every now and then to inspect hats, mittens, sweaters.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
There were so many things going on with the police stoppings and stuff at the time, and it just really hit me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
Smith also likes to push his clarinet above top C or to engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings.
From Time Magazine Archive
For nearly twenty hours—since nine o'clock last night—my thoughts have been such a series of jerks, stoppings, leapings forward and dead stops again as only once before in my life I have known.
From The Debit Account by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Gerard says: "The decoction openeth the stoppings of the liver, and spleen: and is singular good against the jaundice which is of long continuance."
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
