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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The first house we bought was only a stopgap , until we could afford something we really liked.
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The Senate has passed a stopgap funding measure.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Legacy was more of a stopgap than a serious WordStar product, a tester, you might say.
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For quite some time many people will find a job to be a workable stopgap solution to the need for an income.
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It is not a stopgap but a proper part of the cinematic arts.
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Retaining employees means less time and money wasted on recruiting and training temporary stopgaps.
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They find themselves indulging in crisis management and employing stopgap solutions and holding operations.
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This move proved a mere stopgap until the appearance of the last pre-republican premier, the moderate conservative Shahpur Bakhtiar.