stopping
Americannoun
noun
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informal a dental filling
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a solid barrier in a mine tunnel to seal off harmful gases, fire, fresh air from used air, etc
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of stopping
1700–05; special use of stopping, verbal noun of stop; see -ing 1
Example Sentences
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The clause survives as decoration: incorporated, venerated, and incapable of stopping a single seizure.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
These days, however, there might not be much of a window between stopping work and turning 63, since most people work past 60 now.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Fury was first into the ring on Friday, stopping 46-year-old Mariusz Wach in seven rounds in Pattaya, Thailand.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Its powerful Revolutionary Guards have been stopping vessels trying to transit the trade route in recent days, including six that state television on Monday said had sailed outside Iran's designated route.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
“I could tell you, Kathy, but I think I’d rather show you,” he said, then turned away and walked toward the door before stopping in the doorway and facing her again.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
There were so many things going on with the police stoppings and stuff at the time, and it just really hit me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2020
Smith also likes to push his clarinet above top C or to engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings.
From Time Magazine Archive
We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
In one of these stoppings, Lord Courtown backed a little from the suite to talk with us, and he said he saw what benefit I reaped from the waters!
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 by Burney, Fanny
For nearly twenty hours—since nine o'clock last night—my thoughts have been such a series of jerks, stoppings, leapings forward and dead stops again as only once before in my life I have known.
From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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