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Example sentences for: stopped

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Not many voters stopped to ask where the money was coming from.
The four-part series on welfare reform the NYT started yesterday also finds the data less than crystal-clear (no thanks to NYC officials, who, the paper says, gradually stopped cooperating with its requests for information).
Today's coverage focuses mostly on ABC's claim that it stopped trying to get the financial credits after the government asked to see scripts before broadcast.
Monica Lewinsky is useful "as a palliative for personal boredom," while Saddam Hussein is useful "as the excuse for the continued American presence in West Asia and as a regional bully to checkmate fundamentalist Iran's geopolitical ambitions" (which had been why the United States "deliberately stopped short of unseating Mr. Hussein" in 1991).
When Kincaid finds out that Drew is ill (the news comes from a family friend, since she and her mother are in the middle of a months-long quarrel and have stopped speaking), she flies to Antigua to visit him and to offer help.