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Recent Examples of stopper
Sam Allard, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
Which is where Brown, one of the Rams’ primary run stoppers, comes in.
—Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 17 Jan. 2025
Community Report Community Report, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2018
The reviews from the keepers were far from glowing, with Napoli's Reina and Manchester United's De Gea teaming up with Die Mannschaft and Barcelona stopper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen to criticize the new Adidas product.
—SI.com, 24 Mar. 2018
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Noun
The quiet, do-it-all defensive stopper suffered a bone bruise that will likely keep him out until after the All-Star break next month.
—Sam Allard, Axios, 29 Jan. 2025
Which is where Brown, one of the Rams’ primary run stoppers, comes in.
—Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
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
The reviews from the keepers were far from glowing, with Napoli's Reina and Manchester United's De Gea teaming up with Die Mannschaft and Barcelona stopper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen to criticize the new Adidas product.
—SI.com, 24 Mar. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stopper
Noun
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According to a release from the university, the coyotes typically removed the seals pups' head, then ate its brain.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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Reaching with the pad while keeping the seal requires a lot of internal hip rotation, of which Sorokin has plenty.—
Jesse Granger,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The brash freshman who spent much of the season bragging to teammates about his power corked a bat to crush balls even farther.—
Chandler Rome,
The Athletic,
20 Aug. 2024
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Pair with a bottle of wine or corked beverage of choice for an even more elevated gift.—
Rachel Fletcher,
Architectural Digest,
9 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Free agency should be a means to plug a hole here or there.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, Myriam and Roger do their best to keep the business going, handing out flyers, collecting payments and setting up TV news interviews to plug Anika’s talents.—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Any food that involves a flavorful filling wrapped in some sort of dough — gyoza, pierogi, samosas, mandu, empanadas, ravioli, etc. — immediately piques my interest.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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Watch for separation between shell and filling, or an uneven surface or coloration at the bottom of a bonbon.—
Matthew Korfhage,
WIRED,
15 Feb. 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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The Penguins were locked in a tight series against the pesky Ottawa Senators in the 2017 Eastern Conference finals.—
Josh Yohe,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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Users can progress through a full run of Monster Train 2 with them, though a lot of content that would be available in a regular playthrough will be locked.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
20 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Just having your reality turned inside out and having so many emotions go through you, and not knowing which one of them to latch onto, was a brilliant writing and acting moment, and Sterling executed it so well.—
Jackie Strause,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2025
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That being said, there was one interesting detail fans only latched onto immediately: Starks never said his name was Ricky Starks.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
Verb
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On Tuesday, a federal judge denied a request to temporarily bar DOGE teams from accessing internal government systems and removing employees from U.S. agencies, handing Trump a win on one of his signature initiatives.—
Bloomberg News,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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Lawyers representing the students had asked the court to temporarily bar Mr. Musk’s team from sifting through databases that contain identifying information about students and their families, which lawyers behind the lawsuit said had already occurred in violation of the Privacy Act of 1974.—
Zach Montague,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Stopper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stopper. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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