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Definitions for STOPS
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stopsnoun

    a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

ChatGPT

  1. stops

    Stops can refer to various actions, events, or places, depending on the context. Generally, they refer to: 1. The act of ceasing movement, operation, or progress. 2. A place designated for a vehicle to halt and pick up or drop off passengers. 3. A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence. 4. A feature on a musical instrument that alters the sound it produces. 5. In finance, it's a predetermined price at which an order can be executed. 6. In phonetics, it is a consonant sound produced by completely blocking airflow from the lungs and then releasing it.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. STOPS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Stops is ranked #91221 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Stops surname appeared 202 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Stops.

    49.5% or 100 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    39.6% or 80 total occurrences were White.
    8.4% or 17 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'STOPS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3353

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Anagrams for STOPS »

  1. posts

  2. spots

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of STOPS in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of STOPS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of STOPS in a Sentence

  1. Nancy Pelosi:

    Wherever the buck stops, the fact is, Congress is not doing its job.

  2. Ronald Reagan:

    If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it, and if it stops moving, subsidize it !

  3. James Wollack:

    Everyone will pull out all stops to try to compromise this test.

  4. President Putin:

    One man chose this war. And one man can end it, because if Russia stops fighting, the war ends. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ends.

  5. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake:

    The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and other unconstitutional practices by law enforcement, i'm asking the Department of Justice to investigate if our police department has engaged in a pattern or practice of stops, searches or arrests that violate the fourth amendment.

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    the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
    A elation
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