Definitions
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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of stanch.
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Examples
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First, the hemorrhage of religious observance characteristic of the long Sixties was stanched and to some extent reversed, at least among better educated young people.
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LONDON—British supermarket giant Tesco PLC largely stanched the sales decline in its home market with smarter food pricing in the first quarter, but lackluster nonfood sales were hampered by weak consumer spending in the U.K., which is unlikely to improve in the near future.
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Tesco largely stanched the sales decline in its home market with food pricing in the first quarter, but lackluster nonfood sales were hampered by weak consumer spending in the U.K.
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While that falls well short of the 1.1 million workers employed in the sector in 1999, it indicates the hemorrhaging has been stanched.
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The European Central Bank has stanched the bleeding in markets by buying Spanish and Italian bonds.
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The injury was small, the bleeding quickly stanched.
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But as bad as it has been, and despite Republican obstruction, the recovery plan stanched the fall -- and Obama has created more jobs in the recession than Bush created in eight years in office.
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Ms. Rousseff's move stanched evangelical defections.
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President Obama's steadiness rallied the nation at a time of severe economic crisis, saved Detroit, rescued a spiraling Wall Street, stanched the flow of blood in terms of the mortgage crisis and rising joblessness - while also achieving what no president since FDR has managed to do: bring health care reform that will finally stop penalizing tens of millions of the sick in the world's most prosperous economy - including our children!
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The Pueblo resident says she couldn't understand why the bill was so steep—doctors just stanched the bleeding, she says.
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