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• The question for the USPS is on what terms this will come to a stop.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
• Meanwhile, the pickup truck rolled across the freeway to the right shoulder and appeared to come to a stop.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2023
• If the driver doesn’t respond, the system will trigger the car to slowly come to a stop.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• But vehicles still may need to come to a stop — by design.
  — Ethan May, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2020
• Many Afghanistan vets are glad to see U.S. troops return home and the flow of casualties come to a stop.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
• An accident forces Vivien and Roy to come to a stop and try to reclaim their lives one minute at a time to start living in the present.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021
• An entire nation has almost come to a stop today, uh, in the wake of the horrible news.
  — Bob Schieffer, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2017
• The driver, who appeared to be the only occupant, began to come to a stop but then fled north on Brush Road at a high rate of speed.
  — cleveland, 11 Dec. 2020
• New granting rounds have been suspended and the review process for existing ones has come to a stop.
  — Martin Enserink, Science | AAAS, 25 Feb. 2021
• When the car did come to a stop, the officer approached the vehicle and smelled inside the odor of marijuana.
  — cleveland, 29 July 2021
• The toe pick is used to dig into the ice and generate the friction a skater needs to launch into a jump or come to a stop for those dramatic finishing sequences.
  — Allison Goldstein, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2022
• Another police vehicle deployed spike strips, which caused the Lexus to come to a stop after driving over a curb.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 10 Feb. 2022
• State Police say the lieutenant, who was on-duty, had pulled over in his unmarked cruiser and turned on his blue lights to protect the driver of the tractor-trailer that had come to a stop with a smoking tire.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2021
• Here's why Westmoreland was found a short time later, according to the Department of Justice statement, inside the truck, which had come to a stop on the side of the road inside park boundaries.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 1 Oct. 2020
• Depending upon the circumstance, the driver might come to a stop or the driver might assert their claim to the roadway and ostensibly dare the pedestrian to try and disrupt their path.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• After attempting to steady the vehicle, police said the tractor-trailer driver then jackknifed across all lanes of I-675 northbound, causing traffic to come to a stop.
  — Mary Helene Hall, ajc, 8 July 2022
• As the 7-ton vehicle laid in the median, another military vehicle approached and was unable to come to a stop, thereby striking one of the passengers who had been ejected from the overturned truck.
  — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 19 Jan. 2022
• Police deployed spike strips that took out three of the trucks’ tires, but the vehicle didn’t come to a stop until officer’s determined it was equipped with the in-vehicle security system OnStar, police said.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2022
• Waymo spokesperson Chris Bonelli said its vehicles also come to a stop for safety reasons, like earlier last week when a Waymo vehicle stopped in an intersection just before 9 a.m., backing up traffic until team members moved the vehicle.
  — Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024