waylay

Most projects take years to complete, hindered by the pendulum swings of available money, so Brewster tempers her frustration at having to waylay them mid-planning until she can find enough cash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

Barkin said that the Fed will need to "walk a fine line" as it navigates between doing too much and doing too little, and that regardless any external shock has the potential to waylay policy.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2023

But SNAs, at only billionths of a meter across, seem able to travel anywhere in the body and get inside cells before immune defenses can waylay them.

From Nature ● Dec. 3, 2019

Peppy orange trim lines the space, alongside eye-catching screens meant to waylay passers-by.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2014

After dinner broke up, Jason and Piper tried to waylay Leo.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

But unlike in the past, Byrne’s new movie never waylays you with a surprise narrative wrinkle or unexpected thematic depth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025

He follows aging pesh merga on their former patrols and waylays Christian and Yazidi pilgrims.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

But if anything waylays Dany, I doubt it will be a pretty boy.

From Slate ● May 20, 2013

Which waylays his own quest for redemption as he's forced to face his victims.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2011

So she waylays each bin with a single gloved hand.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

McLean, a 32-year-old data analyst in Chicago, was monitoring his wife’s scheduled United flight to New York on a hunch it would be waylaid by the shutdown and a coming snowstorm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

The Ukrainians descended the steps, to be met with a low-key American greeting, and with their optimism, like a piece of waylaid luggage, lost somewhere en route.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

And though it’s much easier now to find books and other media taking a range of perspectives on menopause, it’s also easy to be waylaid by influencers, charlatans and factionalism.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2025

Built on the bones of A Bug’s Land, construction for the Avengers Campus was waylaid due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but eventually opened to much fanfare within California Adventure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

Three charming girls from the Bureaux of Propaganda by Synthetic Voice waylaid him as he stepped out of the lift.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Flu has also forced concert cancellations in recent months, waylaying performances by Christina Aguilera and the rock band KISS.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2024

Her first project is to get the rights to a fabulous Australian wine by waylaying a female vintner at her winery and B&B.

From New York Times ● May 18, 2022

At a 2006 banquet, Sejnowski publicly pressed Minsky on whether people were right to demonize him for waylaying neural nets.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2018

After Wallace came Michael Moore, who became expert at waylaying the unexpecting in unexpected places.

From Slate ● May 26, 2010

“I’ve sailed these waters for centuries, waylaying any demigods foolish enough to explore the Mare Nostrum. This is 'my territory now. And all you have is mine.”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan