React
React verb - To act or behave in response (as to a stimulus or influence).
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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So, the question is raised... How come the knight was so easily able to stop lightning bolts, which move far faster than anything humans can react to, but was unable to stop this?
Source: Invisible Means Undodgeable - Their next stop is a girl who rejected him, but she heartfully apologizes, and Moe doesnt know how to react with that, needing Homer to smash her window with a cinderblock to snap him out of it.
Source: Revenge of the Nerd - Edgeworth: Please stop presenting random evidence just to see how that person will react.
Source: Lampshade Hanging / Visual Novel
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Stop and React. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/react/stop
React & Stop. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/react/stop>.
Stop or React. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/react/stop.
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