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blocking

noun as in occlusion

noun as in unsusceptibility

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That night the demonstrations grew, and federal officials arrested one person for blocking vehicles as they tried to leave the ICE facility, according to Portland police.

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“There is a whole…army of administrators, hundreds of them, who are constantly blocking people…that they have ideological disagreements with.”

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In the 1962 Carter Mountain case, the commission began blocking cable TV systems from competing with local broadcasters.

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Gunmen have conducted holdups around the mines, blocking fuel supplies and preventing local workers from reaching the mines, these people say.

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The team engineered a peptide fragment that locks alpha-synuclein into its healthy shape, blocking its conversion into the toxic clumps that cause nerve cell death.

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