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Recent Examples of stopper
Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 17 Jan. 2025
Getting a boost at the linebacker position with someone like Uche would work two-fold, providing a solid pass rush and run stopper.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 16 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
Which is where Brown, one of the Rams’ primary run stoppers, comes in.
—Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 17 Jan. 2025
Getting a boost at the linebacker position with someone like Uche would work two-fold, providing a solid pass rush and run stopper.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 16 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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The whole scene — seals and speedboaters alike — freeze in their tracks when the fins of two orcas begin to slice through the water toward Seal.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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The seal turned out to be the mark of a store where turn-of-the century artists in Montmartre would buy supplies.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
6 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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Several other teams searching for a head coach have locked in their guy, including the Chicago Bears (Ben Johnson), New York Jets (Aaron Glenn), Jacksonville Jaguars (Liam Coen) and even the Dallas Cowboys (Brian Schottenheimer).—
Scott Thompson,
Fox News,
8 Feb. 2025
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The jet stream, essentially a river of air in the atmosphere that storms flow through, is locked in an almost perfect line from west to east, and will continue to funnel fast-moving storms across the northern tier of the Lower 48.—
Artemis Moshtaghian,
CNN,
8 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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The baby cried incessantly, refusing to latch or nurse because Shauna, weakened by starvation, was unable to produce enough milk to nourish him.—
Michaela Zee,
Variety,
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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Vukov then flew to Melbourne for the Australian Open in January, despite being barred from the event, with Tennis Australia refusing to issue him a credential.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
The Athletic,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Stopper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stopper. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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