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stopped the presses

stopped the presses is the simple past and past participle of stop the presses.

Meaning of stop the presses

Verb

stop the presses (third-person singular simple present stops the presses, present participle stopping the presses, simple past and past participle stopped the presses)

  1. (idiomatic) An exclamation used to introduce especially new, important, surprising, or recent developments.

Questions about stopped the presses

What is stopped the presses the simple past and past participle of?
Stopped the presses is the simple past and past participle of stop the presses.

Words near stopped the presses in the dictionary

  1. stopped short
  2. stopped someone in their tracks
  3. stopped someone's clock
  4. stopped the bleeding
  5. stopped the job
  6. stopped the presses
  7. stopped traffic
  8. stopped two gaps with one bush
  9. stopped up
  10. stopped-clock illusion
  11. stoppedness

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