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stopped

British  
/ stɒpt /

adjective

  1. (of a pipe or tube, esp an organ pipe) closed at one end and thus sounding an octave lower than an open pipe of the same length

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When I finally stopped falling, I sat up.

From The Wall Street Journal

Treasuries have taken a lot of flak from Wall Street in recent years, because they stopped behaving like a safe haven.

From Barron's

Treasuries have taken a lot of flak from Wall Street in recent years, because they stopped behaving like a safe haven.

From Barron's

By the time Ellison made his sixth offer, Warner Chief Executive Officer David Zaslav stopped responding to his texts.

From The Wall Street Journal

"In college, I was stopped because I ticked, 'I have drugs in my bag!' when I passed a police car. I wasn't even holding a bag. The police officers were very amused by it."

From BBC

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