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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a definite halt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a clear and unmistakable stop or pause in an action or process.
Example: "The project reached a definite halt when funding was cut unexpectedly."
Alternatives: "a clear stop" or "an absolute pause".
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By October 1915 the Russian retreat, after a nerve-wracking series of escapes from the salients the Germans had systematically created and then sought to cut off, had come to a definite halt along a line running from the Baltic Sea just west of Riga southward to Czernowitz (Chernovtsy) on the Romanian border.
Clearly, this ICE directive does not put a definite halt to deportations, but merely highlights the human tragedy of family separations that are an ongoing consequence of summary deportations.
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There was a definite appeal.
Call that a definite maybe.
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