obstacle
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One major obstacle is that information vital for understanding climate risks can also have military value.
From BBC โ Oct. 14, 2026
One major obstacle remains: delivering personalized gait retraining outside a specialized research laboratory.
From Science Daily โ Oct. 11, 2026
A small group of people huddled around the tribute in Sol on Thursday, some visibly moved, while tourists tried to navigate an obstacle course of tents and candles.
From Barron's โ Oct. 8, 2026
Negative sentiment around AI has proven an obstacle to its development, as people worry about the impacts of the technology on the job market and push back against data-center projects.
From MarketWatch โ Oct. 3, 2026
It’s as if the chasm itself is an obstacle course created to defeat us.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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That includes removing obstacles to the commercial deployment of trucks, he added.
From The Wall Street Journal โ Oct. 17, 2026
This behavior, known as one-dimensional pinning-free vortex flow, means the vortices can travel along a defined path without encountering the usual obstacles that restrict their movement.
From Science Daily โ Oct. 16, 2026
"We can't remove all the obstacles, but we can give them the skills to manage," she says.
From BBC โ Oct. 16, 2026
Felipe taught himself how to program as a teenager and is developing his own game, although he acknowledges that working in Cuba throws up constant obstacles.
From Barron's โ Oct. 13, 2026
The clinic’s seventy community health workers, who lived among the peasant farmers and had until recently been peasant farmers themselves, spoke often about the economic obstacles to treatment.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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