screeching/crashing halt
noun
: a sudden and complete end
The project came to a screeching/crashing halt.
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Escalating tit-for-tat tariffs this month brought everything to a screeching halt.
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Aowen Cao, NPR, 18 Apr. 2025
The network of services for mothers and children that Brown had spent more than a decade building was coming to a screeching halt.
—Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Over the last nine games, however, the offense has come to a screeching halt; averaging barely three runs per contest during their current 3-6 rut.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
In any case, the great Florida land rush came to a screeching halt in 1926.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
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Aowen Cao, NPR, 18 Apr. 2025
The network of services for mothers and children that Brown had spent more than a decade building was coming to a screeching halt.
—Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Over the last nine games, however, the offense has come to a screeching halt; averaging barely three runs per contest during their current 3-6 rut.
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
In any case, the great Florida land rush came to a screeching halt in 1926.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for screeching/crashing halt
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“Screeching/crashing halt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/screeching%2Fcrashing%20halt. Accessed 8 May. 2025.
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