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Recent Examples of stopper
Lela London, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
The surface has retractable stoppers to help keep your device in place.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025
SI.com, 13 May 2018
Facebook Advertising Works On April 3, game wardens received an Operation Game Thief crime stoppers call alleging an individual was trying to sell an alligator on Facebook.
—Community Report Community Report, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2018
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Noun
The copper stoppers are made by local craftspeople.
—Lela London, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
The surface has retractable stoppers to help keep your device in place.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025
Verb
Alexandre Lacazette and substitute Danny Welbeck both had one-on-one chances to score but both were thwarted by Terriers stopper Jonas Lossl.
—SI.com, 13 May 2018
Facebook Advertising Works On April 3, game wardens received an Operation Game Thief crime stoppers call alleging an individual was trying to sell an alligator on Facebook.
—Community Report Community Report, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stopper
Noun
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This can affect how tightly your appliance door seals.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
18 Aug. 2025
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Inside, attendees tipped flutes of champagne and catered cups of Korean food, followed by short bread cookies frosted with images of the flag and the eagle of San Francisco’s city seal.—
Jia H. Jung,
Mercury News,
16 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Carlin Karr, director of wine and beverage at Stuckey’s restaurants — including Michelin-starred and James Beard Award-winning Frasca Food and Wine in Boulder — believes roughly 1 in 10 wine bottles are off in taste, or corked.—
Jeremy Harlan,
CNN Money,
16 July 2025
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Public opposition to the fee helped cork the proposal.—
Sarah Scoles,
JSTOR Daily,
11 June 2025
Verb
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Push the dryer back in place and either plug the dryer back in or turn on the gas safety valve.—
Lauren Wicks,
Southern Living,
18 Aug. 2025
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The original plan was for Vrabel to spend most of the week with the team for home gamedays and fly back to Nashville or Park City when the team played on the road, still helping out with game-planning and watching film on a laptop plugged directly into the Browns’ network.—
Dianna Russini,
New York Times,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The egg filling is enhanced with Gruyère cheese and a touch of Dijon mustard, topped off with fresh asparagus.—
Mary Shannon Wells,
Southern Living,
18 Aug. 2025
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The lineup also includes a specialty Sorting Hat doughnut, filled with a colorful filling to represent each of the houses, Krispy Kreme said.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Two romantic songs are bunged in, perhaps to give Triptii Dimri something to do; otherwise, she is mostly tasked with looking lovely.—
Anupama Chopra,
The Hollywood Reporter,
5 Nov. 2024
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And each subsequent image bunged into the algorithm could be used to lower the overall noise level.—
WIRED,
WIRED,
19 Mar. 2023
Verb
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Trees that are able to produce more in the way of sugars and carbohydrates for their own growth, tend to have brighter colors, because the sugars get locked in the leaves and have an effect on color.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
19 Aug. 2025
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Those who know that much probably also know that Amanda was eventually found guilty and locked up in an Italian prison.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Across pre-season, Amorim’s men have looked to bait the press onto them when building in and around their penalty area, before looking to hit the ball into the channels for the wing-backs or the No 10s to latch onto.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
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But the serene moment takes an abrupt turn when the cat suddenly bites her hand and latches onto her arm.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 July 2025
Verb
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Part of his plan includes signing an executive order that bars states from using mail ballots and potentially some voting machines.—
Ashley Lopez,
NPR,
18 Aug. 2025
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This June, the House voted to repeal laws that allowed noncitizens to vote in local elections and that barred the police union from negotiating on disciplinary measures against officers.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
17 Aug. 2025
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“Stopper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stopper. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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