stopped (by)

past tense of stop (by)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stopped (by)
Verb
  • The number of recalls dropped in 2020 to 238, the lowest number of recalls CPSC recorded in the 2018 to 2025 period.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Since his debut album Beauty Behind the Madness dropped in 2015, The Weeknd has released multiple bestselling collections, including some that have produced a number of the most successful songs of all time.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Its demands usually came through Coulter, the DOGE lead with the Harvard and hedge fund background, who early on dropped by Dudek’s office unannounced multiple times a week, Dudek said.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
  • By Monday, some eighteen hundred students had dropped by, and the goods had largely been picked clean—Tetris’d into Ubers, hauled down subway stairs, or just stashed in reusable bags.
    Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Then the Fed stepped in with a bold half-point rate cut to stave off further weakening.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Rubin, formerly of Nine Inch Nails, joined the band this summer after the Foos parted ways with Josh Freese, who had stepped in after the 2022 death of longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This producer named Justin Raisen came over to meet me.
    Kim Gordon, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Chris Paddack came over from the Minnesota Twins in a trade July 28.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Their 2010 appearance came by virtue of hosting, not through the grind of the qualifiers.
    Sindiswa Mabunda, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Seven defeats came by 31 points or more.
    Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Stopped (by).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stopped%20%28by%29. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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