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Recent Examples of standstill Tense scenes played out in the chamber as voting came to a standstill, dragging for hours as holdout senators huddled for negotiations. Arkansas Online, 29 June 2025 Kevin Carter/Getty Images For the mortgage markets, however, this back and forth between the Trump administration and the courts essentially translates into a standstill. Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025 But at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with most productions left at a standstill across the industry, Williamson began feeling increasingly restless. Max Gao, IndieWire, 20 June 2025 The Problem With Shamet Shamet is an excellent shooter, both at a standstill and off of movement. Mat Issa, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for standstill
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halt
Noun
  • About three-quarters of the way through the video, the song screeches to a halt, as the video shows four men listening to a boombox.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 5 July 2025
  • On the conflict in Ukraine, Ushakov said Trump emphasized his push for a quick halt to the fighting, and Putin voiced Moscow’s readiness to pursue talks with Kyiv, noting the previous rounds in Turkey yielded humanitarian results.
    Vladimir Isachenkov, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025

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“Standstill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/standstill. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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