1
as in stops
to bring (something) to a standstill
endless complaints stalled the process of selecting the winning design for the memorial
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2
as in dies
to stop functioning
the engine stalls sometimes when it's very cold outside
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Verb
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When policy, innovation, and business insight align, CCU stops being a piece of green rhetoric and becomes good business.—
Peter Bendor-Samuel,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025 -
The buck stops with the humans.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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If the lipids oxidize after the plant dies, much of the benefit could vanish.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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When a member of Congress dies, flags are lowered on the day of death and the following day.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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It’s finished in a beautiful coat of light green and has loads of chrome trim and a black roof.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
12 Sep. 2025
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There’s a lot of tradesmen, but songwriters… There’s not loads of them.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Antihydra almost certainly never halts.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
22 Aug. 2025
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More than 50 Democratic lawmakers fled the state earlier this week, a decision that halts action on redistricting, as well as other bills in the legislature.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
8 Aug. 2025
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In the finale, Laura crashes Daniel and Cherry’s engagement party, and Cherry is arrested for vandalizing Laura’s gallery.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Authorities have publicly identified four people who lost their lives to separate San Diego County traffic crashes over the last week, two on the same day and one in a hit-and-run.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Frontier and American Airlines each had nine delays.—
Marco Cummings,
Denver Post,
14 Sep. 2025
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Acquiring the rest of the footage outside of Ice Cube’s scenes also contributed to the delays.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
11 Sep. 2025
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The center beam shows color and detail clearly, while the outer glow only catches movement.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Even when synchronization works technically, legal enforceability often fails.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The Democratic Party is in shambles because it has become consumed by leadership that wants to have cerebral debates over abstract concepts, and the Republican Party brand, vis-à-vis its own leadership, fails to appeal to greater masses because of its fascination with uninformed arrogance.—
Fabian Naranjo Gonzalez,
Oc Register,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Stalls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stalls. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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