stoplight
Americannoun
noun
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a red light on a traffic signal indicating that vehicles or pedestrians coming towards it should stop
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another word for brake light
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Origin of stoplight
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The Vibe draws random remarks of praise all the time: Shortly after we moved, a construction worker in Ann Arbor waved me down as I idled at a stoplight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
She instructs families to narrate their actions, such as by sharing with their child when they slow down at a stoplight on the way back from school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
The annual parade and festival, which is in its fifth year, is held in La Center, a southwest Washington town of 4,300 that doesn’t have a stoplight.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2025
The shadows of trees in a car’s headlights; a stoplight swaying softly in the wind while it changes color; the sensation that something peculiar will inevitably appear the longer a car stays in motion.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2025
At a stoplight he looked at Reilly’s address in the morning newspaper folded and stored in the well between the bucket seats.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
“Instead of looking at taillights and stoplights, you’re watching hawks fly and seeing birds and deer and elk,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
But that still left open the question of car trips within urban areas, which occurred largely on roadways with stoplights and intersections that constrained traffic speeds.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024
“They’re allowing caravans of locals and vendors with no weigh limit, which tells us that the northbound lane is stable. We’re hoping they’re going to get stoplights up and one-way traffic open very soon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
They build their golden webs between powerlines, on top of stoplights and even above the pumps at local gas stations -- none of which are particularly peaceful spots.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
I see it as my responsibility to ignore the emptiness of the streets, the nonfunctional stoplights, and the occasional clusters of walking dead.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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