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# How to pronounce "stop time" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/stɒptæɪm/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **stop·time**

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "stop time" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "And history and society and people are constantly moving together in the never-stopping time. You can't stop time. You always have to go with time."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 24:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stli1KrKE_I&t=1493s)

### Example 2
> "I just was like so excited about the idea that I had this visual thing that I saw with my own eyes and now I can stop time and capture it and show it to other people. Just kinda like to me that was like the ultimate form of realism was like literally showing you the photons basically that affected this film."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 190:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eK5A_43pkE&t=11425s)

### Example 3
> "Like, it's easy to see why the adult world strikes Holden as so phony: the only adult who pays attention to him in the entire novel has ulterior motives. So he just wants to stop time to keep himself and the people he cares about away from that world. You may remember this obsession with stopping time – "Holden time back", if you'll pardon the pun – from The Great Gatsby."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R66eQLLOins&t=270s)

### Example 4
> "but you could also just take the approach of trying to conceive naturally for about a year or a year and a half before deciding to do that, keeping in mind that all the while you can't stop time. So biological time and aging is going to occur in the backdrop."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 127:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1YRwWmue4Y&t=7649s)

### Example 5
> "I want to think about that capacity to stop time."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3nGNaulPj8&t=216s)

### Example 6
> "psychology we call it memory we call it perceptual inference we call it simulation it's also we call it concepts or conceptual knowledge we call it prediction basically if we were to stop the world right now stop time your brain is in a state and it's representing what it believes is going on in your body and in the world"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 29:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbdRIVCBqNI&t=1787s)

### Example 7
> "krishna to create a sort of time out to stop time so that they can discuss what's about to happen"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjlODZlg8CI&t=1166s)

### Example 8
> "Of course, I cannot stop time, but if it goes forward, then left hand side equivalent, if it's changing,"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 12:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JeBWHzrRD4&t=746s)

### Example 9
> "which charges at five times the rate of anything else. And the key thing is to have a ratio of drive to stop, to stop time, of about six or seven. So if you drive for three hours, you want to stop for 20 or 30 minutes, because that's normally what people will stop for."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgKWPdJWuBQ&t=385s)

### Example 10
> "looking go you've got one D's looking come quick back derit two one stop time's up time's up okay Alison final she just sck free no"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqzKsx72D1Y&t=187s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [time flies](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/time-flies), [time passes quickly](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/time-passes-quickly), [in the blink of an eye](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/in-the-blink-of-an-eye), [fleeting](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/fleeting), [speeding by](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/speeding-by), [stop](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/stop), [time](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/time)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "stop time" correctly?
"stop time" is pronounced `/stɒptæɪm/`. Syllable breakdown: **stop·time**.

### What does "stop time" mean in context?
Refer to real speech examples in the video clips above to observe how native speakers use "stop time" in daily English.

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