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The vice president’s words sound good — like a rap on the knuckles of the tech billionaires who can’t stop claiming they’re building doomsday devices.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Stablecoin issuers were already banned from paying yields on their tokens, but banks also wanted to stop partnerships they felt got around the prohibition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Public health officials are sounding the alarm after an unvaccinated Amtrak passenger who traveled across the U.S., including a stop at Union Station last weekend, was hospitalized with measles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The LGA said it had identified dozens of councils across Wales and England that had been forced to stop or restrict collections, with more expected to follow suit.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The cloak snagged, yanking her to a stop in the lowest bough.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
"We observed that although the initiator caspase is activated in these cells, the cellular death process stops there and does not progress to the next stage," Arama explains.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
County prosecutors have used warnings given by officers or others during traffic stops or other incidents to prove defendants showed a disregard for human life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
‘Once you’ve lived through losing a job … a bigger paycheck stops being the deciding factor.’
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Osteoarthritis already meets two FDA conditions for this pathway: It is a serious disease, and no current treatment stops its course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
I flip the card over to the writing side, and that’s when my heart stops.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
At $12.99 for two jars, it had stopped being the sauce from the fancy grocery store and become simply the sauce my mother bought.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
“There was a time in Zimbabwe when we could have stopped the slide,” he said.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
The federal government stopped replacing stolen Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits—long known as food stamps—in late 2024, and few states now pick up the tab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
“We were all stopped and he’s just chasing the guy like he’s the police,” Lynn said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The young man, the priest, and the barber had never stopped thinking of ways to make their friend go back to a normal life at home.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Harriet was on the point of leaving the room, and only stopt to say, with a very interesting naïveté,
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
“Oh no! he had never written, hardly ever, any thing of the kind in his life. The stupidest fellow! He was afraid not even Miss Woodhouse”—he stopt a moment—“or Miss Smith could inspire him.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
I stopt in my tracks and looked agin and then I seed it was my brother Bill growed to look as old as pa looked a fue years back.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
Of Substances stopt between the Mouth and the Stomach —— 411 Chap.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
A certain Person swallowed a large Morsel of Calf's Lights, which stopt in the Middle of the Gullet, and exactly filled up the Passage.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
But she’s so loaded, she doesn’t abide by existing train schedules and surprises them all by stopping a train that is supposed to bypass the town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Nobody actually knows, but that isn’t stopping people from making some outlandish bets.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
In August, the Home Office credited police in France with intercepting 185 potential crossings involving 4,300 migrants this summer over four separate weeks, as well as stopping 12 boats at sea using new techniques.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The mistake is picking a winner prematurely and stopping your learning.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
I followed her, stopping to slide the pail of milk into the doorway.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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