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unstop

[uhn-stop] / ʌnˈstɒp /








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Will we unstop our ears and learn from the mistakes of the past?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2022

Mitchell's curiosity, his readiness to be interested, seems to unstop his subjects: the genie of their speech pours out.

From The Guardian Jun. 22, 2012

This week the FCC is going to unstop the bottleneck that has made calling internationally the only exorbitantly priced relic in the telephone system.

From Time Magazine Archive

"One flute will serve only to unstop your ears and dissolve the caul from off your eyes, so that you may hear and see the truths that will be laid before you."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

She tried by increased tenderness and love to unstop his silent lips and to make him tell what was lying so heavily on his heart.

From Legends of the Rhine by Ruland, Wilhelm

The infernal machine will continue largely unstopped because there is a huge market for its poison.

From Salon Apr. 26, 2023

Gaterud, on her farm deep in the mountains of Humboldt County, said she feels betrayed by California and angry that she suffers while those flouting the law go unstopped.

From Seattle Times Oct. 3, 2022

If the abnormal cells continue to divide unstopped, they can damage the tissues around them, spread to other parts of the body, and eventually result in death.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

One Hobbs, a reprobate solicitor, received the unstopped cheque and deposited it in the name of Robinson in a London Branch of the Midland Bank.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was mounted upon a fleet mare, and dashed at full speed along the road, passing the Federal column, unstopped.

From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Duke, Basil Wilson

People raced to throw life jackets out, but the unstopping wind seemed to toss the jackets back.

From New York Times Jul. 20, 2018

O’Brien tumbles into her characters’ voices; the prose has a life-filled, unstopping locomotion: “her little Mini, her chariot of freedom.”

From The New Yorker Apr. 25, 2016

Hundreds of protesters, who had promised to be a visible presence here and filled several sections of the arena, let out an elated, unstopping cheer.

From New York Times Mar. 11, 2016

He realises that he is disconcerted above all by their unstopping busyness.

From The Guardian Mar. 1, 2013

The latter, however, is again unsealed through cattle licking off the salt near the aperture, and the same process of filling up and unstopping goes on continually.

From The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela by Benjamin of Tudela




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