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• Prime Day is nearing its end, so the pace of new deals has just about come to a halt.
  — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 13 July 2022
• The Browns had their winning streak come to a halt Sunday with a 38-7 loss to the Steelers.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2020
• For now, court action has come to a halt in the Connecticut case.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2022
• However, the deluge of 9-1-1 calls didn’t come to a halt as EMS waited out the storm.
  — Tara Law, Time, 7 Sep. 2021
• This comes as user growth is stagnating, but hasn’t quite come to a halt.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2022
• All those futile, flamboyant projects have come to a halt.
  — Hernan Diaz, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Feb. 2023
• While milia do indeed look like whiteheads, that's where most of the comparisons come to a halt.
  — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 11 May 2022
• Brown shared via Instagram on Sunday (July 17) that the opening of the restaurant has come to a halt.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 18 July 2022
• But the violence is unlikely to come to a halt anytime soon.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2021
• African countries could see food shortages by this summer if Russia’s war on Ukraine does not come to a halt soon.
  — Ashlee Banks, Essence, 7 Mar. 2022
• The driver led officers on a chase through the city, just outside Columbus, and stop sticks were deployed to get the car to come to a halt, police said.
  — Fox News, 30 Apr. 2022
• The bike rider could consider jamming on their bike brakes and try to come to a halt before ramming into the open door.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• This roller coaster of temperatures and intense back-and-forth between extreme heat and strong rains has come to a halt, though.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Oct. 2022
• Salary payments for federal employees could also come to a halt, even if just for two or three weeks.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• If that attack had been an effort to shut down our system, our economy would have come to a halt the way when Russia attacked Ukraine.
  — NBC News, 6 June 2021
• The lawsuits have come to a halt before the Supreme Court as the program is set to end next week, in conjunction with the expiration of the Covid-19 public health emergency.
  — Sara Dorn, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Writers strike looms after union members vote to shut down film and TV production If a strike happens, production on many shows and films will come to a halt.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 18 Apr. 2023
• If that were to occur, DeSantis said search and rescue efforts may be impacted — and possibly be forced to come to a halt once again.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 2 July 2021
• At the end of November, Abiy declared victory, and the government has insisted since then that fighting has come to a halt.
  — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 11 Dec. 2020
• At the Shriner’s Sphinx Temple in the neighboring town of Newington, fundraising has come to a halt because the organization’s main events have been shut down.
  — Steven Goode, courant.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• Westminster Academy boys coach Chris Lamarre, whose team was playing in the first state semifinal in school history, saw his team’s nine-game winning streak come to a halt.
  — Gary Curreri, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Feb. 2021
• Photos and videos show farmers causing a highway near Germany’s border to come to a halt, with some Germans reportedly even joining the protest.
  — Fox News, 10 July 2022
• Becerra and Fauci stressed the country is still in a pandemic and much of the response would come to a halt in the coming months without additional funding, the official said.
  — Dan Diamond, Rachel Roubein and Yasmeen Abutaleb, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2022
• The exceptional increase in new broadband connections during the pandemic had come to a halt.
  — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• All cars would be programmed to automatically come to a halt upon receiving the stop signal.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Decades of unchecked growth in the California hospice industry will come to a halt Jan. 1, when a moratorium on new licenses takes effect.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
• Major services have come to a halt across the country in recent weeks over Macron’s proposal to raise the retirement age for most workers from 62 to 64 – a move that has riled opposition lawmakers and trade unions.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• CalFresh program will see an average drop of $160 in monthly benefits as these emergency allotments come to a halt at the end of February.
  — Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2023
• Decades of unchecked growth in the California hospice industry will come to a halt Jan. 1, when a moratorium on new licenses takes effect along with reforms aimed at curbing widespread fraud.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2021
• With people working from home and conventions being canceled because of public gathering limits, business travel has come to a halt.
  — Kevin Bessler, Washington Examiner, 31 July 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024