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The phrase "almost stops" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something is nearing a halt but has not completely stopped yet.
Example: "As the car approached the red light, it almost stops before coming to a complete halt."
Alternatives: "nearly halts" or "practically stops".
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Almost stops the heart.
Test cricket almost stops for the next 12 months.
"I think it almost stops being a documentary altogether," he said.
A Johannesburg newspaper published excerpts from drafts of some 70 letters by Nelson Mandela during his imprisonment by South Africa's apartheid government in which he wrote that "there are times when my heart almost stops beating, slowed down by heavy loads of longing" for freedom.
Emission of OIT almost stops after a certain period of time.
"If we delete the channels in glial cells, the flow almost stops," Nedergaard says.
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Privatisation has almost stopped.
We had stopped fighting, almost stopped speaking.
The decline has now almost stopped.
At this temperature, atoms almost stop moving.
Often they almost stop here".
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