Make it
Make it verb - Succeed in a big way; get to the top.
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Both terms in one sentence
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Later, after the battle when a mirror from his tower is about to fall on him, he attempts to stop it... only to shatter it instead and make it even more lethal.
Source: Oh Crap / Video Games - The Thalmor from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim have arranged it to make it seem like they were the ones to stop the Oblivion Crisis in their home territories, not Martin and the Champion of Cyrodiil.
Source: Internal Retcon - At the end of The Peacekeeper Wars, Crichton arguably knew that both the universe and he might not make it if he used wormhole weapons to stop the war.
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Stop and Make it. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/make_it/stop
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Stop or Make it. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/make_it/stop.
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