stopped
Britishadjective
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Many legal residents have stopped showing up to work or fled to other parts of the country out of fear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Kim maintained a hiring pause, stopped merit raises and took “a hard look at a lot of our administrative expenses and our operations,” he told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Just like then, the bad news kept coming, but prices stopped falling.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
He was stopped by Border Force officials in Manchester and was told to return to the airport to catch the next direct flight home.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Apparently my real ignorance began to show; after a while Lieutenant Rahms stopped making notes of my hopelessly stupid answers.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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