Example Sentences

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More recently, signs of stress are showing up in the private-credit market where major firms are pausing redemptions and writing down loans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Second, while the Fed is cutting, other global central banks are pausing or even raising rates.

From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025

Postal services around the world are pausing deliveries to the US over confusion around new import taxes that must be paid on parcels from the end of the month.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

No wonder military leaders are "pausing" these programs.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2025

What is it all the people on this side of the street are pausing to look at over there?

From Turns about Town by Holliday, Robert Cortes