STOPPING (BY OR IN) Synonyms: 19 Similar Words

stopping (by or in)

verb

present participle of stop (by or in)

as in visiting

to make a brief visit stop by on your way to the game so we can go there together

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Though the stalls outside the Mercato Centrale in San Lorenzo mainly sell fake leather goods and cheap souvenirs, the actual market is worth visiting.

— Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2026
Though the Bone Thugs don’t have prior experiences visiting the Walk of Fame (after all, Ruthless Records was founded not in Hollywood but Compton), receiving their star feels like a step towards remediating that lack of recognition.

— Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 8 July 2026

Definition of visiting

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Two years later, Gates was running in his first of — so far — 49 Peachtree Road Races.

— Andre Butso, AJC.com, 2 July 2026
In practice, that often means multiple governance systems running in parallel, with the same model subject to different thresholds for risk, access and compliance depending on where it’s deployed.

— Greg Pavlik, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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While the world’s oceans have generally been heating up, one patch of the Atlantic located south of Greenland has been dropping in temperature.

— Devika Rao, TheWeek, 22 June 2026
And then, her par putt on 18 – measured at 2 feet, 10 inches – spun tantalizingly around the rim of the cup before dropping in and ending the suspense.

— Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 8 June 2026

Definition of dropping in

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The group also found that diagnoses of gambling disorders fell in the 11 states that did not legalize sports betting, with cases dropping by about 30% from 2018 to March 2026.

— Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 26 June 2026
Although it’s credited to the core duo of Shabason and Krgovich, Four Days in June leans on a community of treasured collaborators; some are longtime members of the duo’s Toronto cohort and others outsiders dropping by.

— Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 18 June 2026

Definition of dropping by

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