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- adjective Attributive form of
full stop , noun.
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Examples
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After calling a full-stop on new offshore drilling after the spill, U.S. regulators have approved new drilling plans for many other companies, including Chevron, but not for BP.
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It's the last part of the sentence, the part between the comma and the full-stop; Gordon Brown is not smooth, Tony Blair was smooth, Gordon Brown is anything but smooth.
What did Jeremy Clarkson say that was so wrong Not a sheep 2009
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But this path you have chosen as a burgeoning fashion designer must come to a full-stop; if not a permanent stop, at least a pause.
Malcolm Harris: Open Letter to Musician Kanye West: Kanye, Please Stop! Malcolm Harris 2011
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But this path you have chosen as a burgeoning fashion designer must come to a full-stop; if not a permanent stop, at least a pause.
Malcolm Harris: Open Letter to Musician Kanye West: Kanye, Please Stop! Malcolm Harris 2011
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But this path you have chosen as a burgeoning fashion designer must come to a full-stop; if not a permanent stop, at least a pause.
Malcolm Harris: Open Letter to Musician Kanye West: Kanye, Please Stop! Malcolm Harris 2011
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I think doing a start-up is hard full-stop, no matter where you do it.
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I had an overwhelming fear that a visible longing for home and family would turn into a career hurdle, or even bring it to a premature full-stop.
I was a selfish dad 2011
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A novelist or dramatist chooses when the final full-stop comes; a TV screenwriter is at the mercy of ratings, advertisers and actor availability.
Television re-runs: only 235 episodes to go | Mark Lawson 2011
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The sidewalk and a phalanx of humble stucco apartment buildings yielded full-stop to low-desert cactus, rough sand and well-camouflaged, hardscrabble fauna.
Bangs Stephen Marlowe 2011
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Not to cast aspersions but do you definitely have exactly the same address with only a full-stop (period) differentiating the two?
Google Doesn’t Require You To Login With Dots | Lifehacker Australia 2010
sonnyjoefoxx commented on the word full-stop
I'm addicted to hyphens.
April 28, 2008
gangerh commented on the word full-stop
Hi. Welcome. So, you get hyphenated regularly, do you, Sonny-Joe-Foxx?
April 28, 2008
sonnyjoefoxx commented on the word full-stop
Hi. Thanks for the welcome. Your subtlety is right up my alley. Unfortunately, it's not helping my much-needed cure.
May 2, 2008
dontcry commented on the word full-stop
SonnyJoeFoxx Try weaning yourself off the junk with some colon or semi-colon (sorry about the h****n there, I just use them socially) therapy. Take it slow, man. Good luck.
*makes a fist, thumps her heart twice with her fist, then shows you her fist in the air*
May 2, 2008
sonnyjoefoxx commented on the word full-stop
"Socially." Yeah, I remember saying that. I used to say, "I can take it or leave it." Ha! What about the ones who can't take it but can't leave it either?
*sigh*
Sorry, I'm a little high-strung. I appreciate the self-censorship. I'll look into this therapy. I think I read about it a few years ago.
May 2, 2008
gangerh commented on the word full-stop
Those are the ones who spent their whole life hyphenated. The cemeteries are full of them. You know: 'Here Lies John Doe 1925-1990' etc.
May 3, 2008
gangerh commented on the word full-stop
Some spent their whole lives spaced-out as well. You know: '1925 - 1990'.
May 3, 2008
sonnyjoefoxx commented on the word full-stop
This isn't very comforting. Sounds like a lose-lose situation.
May 3, 2008
dontcry commented on the word full-stop
SJF: Have-you-tried-aversion-therapy?
May 3, 2008
reesetee commented on the word full-stop
Hey-that's-an-idea.
May 3, 2008