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as in to stop
to bring (something) to a standstill
endless complaints stalled the process of selecting the winning design for the memorial
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as in to die
to stop functioning
the engine stalls sometimes when it's very cold outside
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as in delay
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Recent Examples of stall
Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 12 May 2025
Crypto deals raise questions Unless court orders are narrowly tailored to only cover the actual litigants, the administration argues, judges will have too much power to stall crucial presidential actions.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 12 May 2025
Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 May 2025
The trouble is that social media and speeches from politicians have become like the walls of public bathroom toilet stalls.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
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Verb
Unemployment insurance cuts The pre-K-12 education budget, which makes up around one-third of state spending, is another area where budget negotiations have stalled.
—Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 12 May 2025
Crypto deals raise questions Unless court orders are narrowly tailored to only cover the actual litigants, the administration argues, judges will have too much power to stall crucial presidential actions.
—Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 12 May 2025
Noun
Dogs were taking the metro, purposefully riding up and down escalators, taking their place in train cars alongside human passengers, and disembarking at destinations where friendly food stall operators had snacks on offer.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 May 2025
The trouble is that social media and speeches from politicians have become like the walls of public bathroom toilet stalls.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stall
Verb
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Chemotherapy Chemotherapy agents, most commonly docetaxel, may be used when hormone treatments stop working and a person has metastatic CRPC.—
Matthew Wosnitzer,
Verywell Health,
12 May 2025
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Angelo must stop whoever’s coming for his family by searching his past hits for clues, and the list is very long.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
12 May 2025
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About 1,600 people get sick and 260 die each year from listeriosis, according to the CDC.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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The Manor of Dreams by Christina Li When a Chinese American Hollywood star dies, two families vie for the fortune as they’re forced to reckon with decades-old secrets and confront hard truths.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
16 May 2025
Noun
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The brother and sister duo, both from Little Rock, sat at a booth along the midway, each offering their own unique services: Dailey braids hair while Reynolds paints faces.—
Parker Mancino,
Arkansas Online,
18 May 2025
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People were dancing on top of a taxi booth while a Busta Rhymes song blasted out of a speaker.—
James L. Edwards III,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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After months of delays, a resentencing hearing to determine whether the Menendez brothers should be released from prison after serving more than three decades is set to begin Tuesday.—
Jane Onyanga-Omara,
USA Today,
14 May 2025
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The Series completed two episodes of season one before snow in Utah caused a major delay in production.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2025
Verb
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After Trump halted the refugee program, freezing funding for processing and resettlement aid, a group of refugees and resettlement agencies filed a federal lawsuit challenging shutdown.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
18 May 2025
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Voice of America, which was founded in 1942, halted operations on March 15, a day after Mr. Trump signed an executive order seeking to gut the U.S. Agency for Global Media.—
Minho Kim,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
Verb
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The truck then crashed into a pillar on the 95th Street bridge and came to rest against the bridge, the crash report said.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
17 May 2025
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Brown also faced turmoil, including the 2008-10 Great Recession, which included real estate prices crashing up to 70% inland and 33% on the coast.—
John Seiler,
Oc Register,
15 May 2025
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Tall, handsome, and polite, Benny—played by Benito Skinner—checks a near-comical number of boxes: valedictorian, football player, homecoming king.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
15 May 2025
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May 14, 2025 4 min read The red flags abound—political research tells us the U.S. is becoming an autocracy By Dan Vergano As president, Donald Trump pretty much checks all the warning boxes for an autocrat.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
14 May 2025
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The Galaxy refused to quit and were rewarded when Reus chipped in a free kick from just outside the box in the 87th minute, giving the Galaxy their first point in a month — a point McCarthy saved with a brilliant goal-line stop of Hollingshead’s back-heel try deep in stoppage time.—
Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2025
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Francesco Acerbi, the centre-back who moved up front and sent that Champions League semi-final to extra time, once again found himself in the opposition penalty area in stoppage time.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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“Stall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stall. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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