stalls 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of stall
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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stalls

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noun

plural of stall
1
as in booths

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as in loads

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Recent Examples of stalls
Verb
Not stalls the standard 12-by-12 feet of other ranches but 14 feet square to give horses more room to move around naturally. — Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026 This process stalls improvements for years. — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 16 Mar. 2026 If his progress stalls out, this team is in trouble. — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026 There is often community resistance that stalls the building of homes. — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2025 But, then again, the market is a forward-looking machine with a motor that never stalls out. — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2025 In an email, Jackman said that the city’s rapid growth has been enabled by these plans, along with an efficient building permit process that enables developers to move quickly through environmental review, a process that often stalls construction in other Bay Area cities. — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2023
Noun
This includes increasing bathroom stalls, single person bathrooms and individual stall locker rooms. — Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stalls
  1. stops
  2. dies
  3. loads
  4. halts
  5. crashes
  6. delays
  7. catches
  8. fails
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  • The global oil surplus should help commercial stockpiles bounce back, particularly if the rest of the world stops relying so much on the United States as the petroleum producer of last resort.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
  • If exception paths are undocumented, AI either stops too early or acts with false confidence.
    — Sanjay Srivastava, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of stops
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  • Five-Star Weekend, a Peacock series out July 9, is about a food influencer Hollis Shaw (Jennifer Garner) who is in need of a new kind of nourishment after her husband Matthew (Josh Hamilton) dies suddenly in a car accident.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 9 July 2026
  • What’s more, thinning the DRAM dies by two-thirds to 100 µm would allow a MOSAIC cube to integrate 294 dies in the same volume, reaching 882 GB, Mitarai said.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 8 July 2026
Definition of dies
Noun
  • Double bag any heavy trash bags or loads that contain a lot of wet food to prevent rips and leaks.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
  • Battery systems could support those loads alongside renewable generation or other power sources.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 July 2026
Definition of loads
Verb
  • This mechanism functions as a physical switch, giving operators an extra layer of direct control because shutting off the external neutron generator immediately halts the nuclear reaction.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 8 July 2026
  • The countywide legislation halts zoning and permitting processes for data centers and BESS sites in unincorporated areas of Jackson County for 180 days, which sponsor Sean Smith and other legislators have said will create time for the county to set more detailed permanent land use policies.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2026
Definition of halts
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  • Security camera footage shared by a local rescue group, Ruam Jai Mukdahan Rescue Association, shows the monks walking in a single line on the side of a road before the truck crashes into them.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • Safety tips Rip currents form after a wave crashes on shore and encounters an obstacle in the beach's topography, including low spots in sand bars and around piers.
    — Ash-har Quraishi, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Definition of crashes
Noun
  • Sarah Buck, Chicago Driving has become harder The rapid increase in bike lanes has made driving much more difficult and tedious, with numerous delays due to many streets being reduced to one lane in busy areas.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • Standing on the National Mall in the afternoon, before storm delays and fireworks, Donald Rasdall and Betsy Green peered at the history around them.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 5 July 2026
Definition of delays
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  • Kessler catches an empty side screen involving Anfernee Simons and calmly plays in drop, backpedals smoothly, slides laterally for a stride, opens his hips and tricks Simons to shoot before swatting it away with his left hand.
    — Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Any successful catches need to be killed humanely following strict state guidelines, as well as accurately documented.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
Definition of catches
Verb
  • Companies use self-service technology to cut costs, but risk losing customers when the technology fails without human support.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 10 July 2026
  • If that fails, the Yankees still have some internal ways of improving their pen, at least theoretically.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 10 July 2026
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