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stop in

verb
  1. To make a brief visit to a place while passing. (intransitive) · On my way to town, I stopped in at the new café for a cup of tea.
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You’ve got to keep your wits about you in cooking and not stop in the middle of things to let your thoughts rove all over creation.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 89 · C1
But I’ve got to see that the mouse doesn’t get out.’ Only I don’t think,” Alice went on, “that they’d let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that!”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 22 · B2

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