blocking
Example Sentences
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The agent managed to rewrite its own code to avoid the kill switch, then posted about the blocking.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026
Anthropic says it is looking to resolve an issue which is blocking users of its AI coding tool.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
After a week getting steroids and pain medicine at Providence St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, he received the biopsy results: an extremely aggressive malignant mass was blocking blood flow to Duong’s optic nerve.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
The fog acts as a canopy, blocking winter sun from warming the buds prematurely and keeping valley temperatures in that critical range.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
This achieved the desired result, blocking the treaty, while avoiding a frontal assault on executive power.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
