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  • past tense form of stop.
  • past participle of stop.
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stopped

British  
/ stɒpt /

adjective

  1. (of a pipe or tube, esp an organ pipe) closed at one end and thus sounding an octave lower than an open pipe of the same length

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It stopped transmitting at 16:37, a few miles north east of Drymen in Stirling.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Smesko wanted to expand Reese’s shooting range, so in training camp he stopped a team drill until Reese made two 3-pointers in a row.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The council did not intercede, for example, two years ago when LA28 stopped its previous practice of naming contractors that it had paid more than $1 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Just like then, the bad news kept coming, but prices stopped falling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

We carried her to the hospital, then stopped.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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