blocking
Example Sentences
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Apple has already age-verified its UK users and offers a blocking service on its own platforms including iMessage.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Geren thought that the generals on the list would keep blocking the creative colonels.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
Millions of Peruvians hold darker memories of her father and refuse to vote for anyone bearing the Fujimori name, blocking her path to the presidency three times.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
And as he ascended, James Dolan even turned on the patriarch, blocking his then-78-year-old father’s dream deal with a satellite TV business.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
My eyes hurt and my vision is blurry, but yes, there is the den, rising like a dark mass, blocking the stars.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
Vocabulary lists containing blocking
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