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• As a result, life tends to grind to a halt when the sun goes down.
  — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2021
• The end of Moore's Law doesn't mean your laptop is about to grind to a halt.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2023
• The flow restricts and, for a moment, time grinds to a halt.
  — Erica Stern june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
• This momentum could grind to a halt in the weeks and months to come.
  — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
• In fact, trade with China has all but ground to a halt.
  — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Apr. 2025
• With the fastest rate hikes since the 1980’s the property market has ground to a halt.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• The backlog has doubled over the past decade, and the system is grinding to a halt.
  — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
• Whenever the government grinds to a halt, the rich don’t feel the pain.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• Four of their five losses have come in the clutch when their pace and ball movement grinds to a halt.
  — Eric Koreen, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024
• But the downside is that if one part of the system fails, the industry can grind to a halt.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 19 July 2024
• When that slow-moving wind grinds to a halt, a heat dome occurs.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 28 June 2023
• Experts warned that many cities could grind to a halt with blockades.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
• If a sanitation strike hit New York, the city would grind to a halt.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
• Every so often, a kid would use the N-word within earshot of a teacher, and the class would grind to a halt.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 Dec. 2021
• When a recipe simply hits all the right notes, any thought of altering it grinds to a halt for a good decade or so.
  — Aleksandra Crapanzano / Photographs By F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal, Food Styling By Kim Ramin , WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• The final day of that search caused the Boston area to essentially grind to a halt.
  — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• Dak Prescott has been on fire, and there’s no reason to think that will grind to a halt at Carolina.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The pandemic might’ve made a mess of most things, but life didn’t totally grind to a halt.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 16 Apr. 2021
• Around 100 hostages have not been returned, a third of whom are believed to be dead, and cease-fire efforts have ground to a halt.
  — Melanie Lidman and Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024
• Finally, the system avoids grinding to a halt if a GPU or link fails.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2025
• But by then everything had ground to a halt with the pandemic.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• If that person becomes unavailable, the work can grind to a halt.
  — Adrian Stelmach, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
• When the lights went out across the Iberian Peninsula in April, everything ground to a halt.
  — Wired News, 4 June 2025
• Without this revenue, the Russian war machine will grind to a halt.
  — Jason Fields, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
• There was a real risk that key societal functions would grind to a halt.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 June 2023
• And the threat of those additional costs has caused shipments of solar panels to grind to a halt.
  — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• Travel by road will be treacherous, while air travel nearly ground to a halt on Sunday.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 26 Jan. 2026
• The car grinds to a halt just inches away from the child.
  — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
• At a moment when Haiti’s tourism continues to grind to a halt, the country is facing another setback.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2026
• Their midfield has ground to a halt in recent years, suffering from under-investment and injuries to key players.
  — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026