block
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The following summer, ministers blamed members of the public who littered and caused drains to block.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
It happened place by place, inch by inch, a dusty disco ball left in the rummage while a Starbucks or a boutique gym rose to serve the freshly gentrified block around it.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
"By understanding how SET and related PP2A blockers help GBM survive treatment, we can test ways to block that protection and make current therapies more effective."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Instead, block the scammer and report the phone number or social-media username to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The building was less than a block from the Beje, and probably a century newer, but there was no Tante Anna to wax and scrub.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Growing up a few blocks from campus, Trinidad aspired to be a veterinarian as a child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
These states do not fit neatly into the conventional picture of particles built from quarks, the fundamental building blocks of matter.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
Such trends were in plain sight in Tor Bella Monaca, a working-class eastern suburb of Rome dotted by rundown apartment blocks, cash-for-gold shops and discount stores.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
The company, which was recently valued at $5.4 billion in its latest fundraise, has said the platform blocks artists’ names from being used as prompts and artists names weren’t used in training metadata.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
So the Needle will be 46 blocks away from my house.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Bruno Fernandes: Volleyed against the bar from a Mbuemo nod back, had another first-half effort deflected over and another blocked.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
In the second half of 2022 — during the dawn of ChatGPT — it blocked almost 45 million accounts.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
Experts from India, China, Australia and South Korea have been aiding Nepali rescuers in their search of survivors inside the blocked tunnels.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
It complemented his fragmented musical architecture, just as the blocked passions of the film’s characters are captured in his unresolved harmonies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Delia went to the door and blocked it, her feet apart and arms crossed like some kind of mobster.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Video footage we’ve seen shows Teamsters blocking a motorcyclist who worked for an Amazon contractor from entering the facility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Among the proteins examined, SET stood out because blocking it had such a strong effect on tumor formation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Talwani previously issued an order blocking the Postal Service changes from being implemented in California and more than 20 other suing states in June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Also weighing on trade flows is fallout from the Middle East war, with Iran largely blocking off the Strait of Hormuz -- a key waterway for global energy and fertilizer transit.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Heavy curtains hang over her windows instead of rugs, blocking the dangerous light.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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