stonewalled
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Her bio-father, Kwangho, meanwhile, spent five years searching for her whereabouts, being stonewalled by bureaucracy and finally finding a sympathetic insider to leak the information that led to his daughter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Both the army and the RSF have previously stonewalled negotiations brokered by the US and Saudi Arabia.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
Ms Brownlie said "that makes it more frustrating" when her requests through the formal processes have been "stonewalled".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025
New Zealand police in Paris, stonewalled by French officials, found themselves translating the local newspapers and sending that information straight back to Auckland.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
Ang Dorje hailed from Pangboche, an aggregation of stonewalled houses and terraced potato fields clinging to a rugged hillside at 13,000 feet.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
