blockade
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“We have a blockade, which gives them no money, allows them no money.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Since negotiations broke down in early April, the U.S. has imposed a blockade.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
The increase marks the first hike in automobile fuel prices in India since the war broke out in February, prompting Iran's near-total blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
It would allow for condemnation of vessels not on any sanctions list, as well as neutral vessels trying to break the blockade.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Germany was incapable now of defending itself, and the continuing Allied blockade of German ports was causing increasing misery.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Vocabulary lists containing blockade
The American Civil War
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