stymied

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Perez said she hopes Thursday’s ruling will result in “some type of justice, some type of fairness” for her son and others who have been stymied by the Sheriff’s Department in efforts to obtain information.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

While options exist already for individuals to open their own retirement plans through IRAs, people often get stymied by the administrative hurdles and their own inertia and fail to create such accounts, experts said.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

Rescuers, stymied by inclement weather, so far have located the bodies of seven women and a man killed in the avalanche.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

The noisy blasts that pepper towns across China in the weeks surrounding the Lunar New Year holiday were stymied after provinces began imposing strict bans on fireworks in the 2010s over safety and pollution concerns.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

He was initially stymied by the essays, which he tried to fire off as irreverent, impulsive e-mail messages.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz