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Also, come to a standstill . Stop, either permanently or temporarily. For example, The sergeant ordered the men to come to a halt , or With the strike, construction came to a standstill . Both terms employ come to in the sense of “arrive at” or “reach,” a usage dating from the 10th century. Also see come to , def. 2.

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Sadly, their love story has come to a halt.

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Italian outlets had earlier on Thursday reported that the cable car had come to a halt and several people had been rescued from another cabin which had stopped further down the valley.

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Several construction projects in Cambodia have also come to a halt after Trump's tariffs announcement, he said.

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The world inside a downtown L.A. warehouse seemed to come to a halt, and all I saw was a blur of colors, where pinkish-red hues bled into shades of yellow and purple.

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As my Slate colleague Christina Cauterucci laid out in her podcast series Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs, the antigay wave that Bryant instigated in Florida would come to a halt in California.

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