stop time
Britishnoun
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Atwood asserts, “I move through time, and, when I write, time moves through me. It’s the same for everyone. You can’t stop time, nor can you seize it; it slips away like the Liffey in Joyce’s ‘Finnegan’s Wake.’
From Los Angeles Times
Of course, writing is a way to capture a moment, to stop time, but I was curious about “wooshed.”
From Los Angeles Times
Besides being able to stop time temporarily, the shadowy character also serves another function in Borderland.
From Salon
Everyone Carrie meets in this passage through her grief is desperate to discover something greater than themselves, a power that will stop time’s ravages forever.
From Salon
In the past, Monza has been a race in which teams make only one pit stop, because it had a low-abrasion track surface, low tyre wear and a long pit lane, which increases stop time.
From BBC
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