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• Slow down and stop, asymptotically stop, or slow down, stop, and then reverse, so it starts to contract again. —  Patricia Burchat sheds light on dark matter
• The first to rush up to the plane when it rolled to a stop were the two aides One of the two was a giant of a fellow; the other tall and gaunt and looking like the advance agent for a funeral The giant-size one was Colonel John Renwick--better known as Renny--an engineer of repute The other man was William Harper Littlejohn. —  089 - The Flying Goblin
• He saw her arm loop eagerly through Valle's, and Ray struggled to talk, to make his long-unused voice work; a dry rasp sounding vaguely like the word stop was all he could force out. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 04 - April 1996
• Failing to discover anything dangerous, they will take a few steps forward, perhaps run around a little, giving quick tossings of the head, and sniffing with almost every breath, but whatever they do the stop is always in the same position—facing the flag, the strange object they cannot understand. —  Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
• The dominant male at this stop was a twice-flunked eighth-grade goon named Matt Woodbridge, who had driven out all the little kids until it was just him and his crew: three slope-headed seventh graders, all of them smoking in broad daylight and daring anyone to say anything about it. —  Land of the Blind by Jess Walter

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