Before he had taken a full step, her fall simply stopped.
All I'd have to do is simply stop seeing her.
The man had simply stopped dead in the middle of the street.
By the end of the year, 20 had simply stopped coming.
That did not work, so I simply stopped using the phone.
They passed more men who had simply stopped; given up.
"It got to the point that I simply stopped trying to get to work."
In time, perhaps, those other things will simply stop happening for want of attention.
In any case there has never been a technology that simply stopped at some point.
Quite often he'd simply stop and lean against the wall.