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Adjective
stop-start (comparative more stop-start, superlative most stop-start)
- Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.
2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:
2008 March 21, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:Health, a quartet from Los Angeles, is another story, playing manic, stop-start spasms of percussion and screamy noise, with three of its members throwing their bodies around as if in an untamed dance.
2021 April 7, Christian Wolmar, “Electrification is a given... but comfort matters as well”, in RAIL, number 928, page 47:Otherwise, we would not be talking about electrifying the main lines, as the work would have been long since done. Instead, we are now at the sixth stage of a stop (1960s) start (1990s East Coast) stop (1990s) start (2000s Great Western) stop (2010s) process that has gone on for more than half a century.
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