stopped
Britishadjective
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Along the way, as the cloud business progressed from a side project to a major part of Amazon’s business, companies stopped asking why they should turn their computing needs over to a bookseller.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
Another cart, which looked like a small boat with a prophetic name, “Deep Trouble,” had just that when it ran out of momentum and stopped along the course.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
The global health body warned the true scale of the number of cases and spread was not clear but stopped short of declaring a pandemic emergency, the highest alert level introduced in 2024.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
The rest of the world, thankfully, has stopped listening.
From Salon • May 16, 2026
They’d gone another fifty paces when Torak stopped so abruptly that she walked into him.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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