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Lagos, one of Africa's largest and busiest cities, is infamous for its long traffic jams that cause gridlock and hamper business activity.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

The government argued that training AI on written works is “exceedingly transformative” and doesn’t hamper the market or the value of the copyrighted work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Tesla is recalling nearly three million cars in China with interior door handles that could hamper a person's ability to exit their vehicle in an emergency, Beijing's national market watchdog said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

Adding to those anxieties is an intensifying conflict in the Middle East that is lifting oil prices and threatening to hamper the global economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

It’s as big as Mama’s big white laundry hamper back home and seems like she’s always got about ten hundred things piled up in there.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

This then hampers them in education, work and relationships.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The skills deficit hampers new grads as they are trying to launch themselves, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

A Hormuz bottleneck has taken its toll on global oil supply and snarled supply chains, while the targeting of energy infrastructure last week hampers energy production capacity.

From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 2026

A shortage of components such as electrical transformers and gas turbines hampers data-center construction, and operators struggle to secure the immense amounts of electrical power required to run computing clusters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025

Their drivers eased their vehicles under shade trees along the last few hundred meters of the racecourse, then spread picnic blankets on the grass and opened hampers full of sandwiches and cold drinks.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

The search team's work, expected to take five days, could be hampered by giant land-dwelling crabs, as well as the El Niño climate phenomenon which is now the strongest ever recorded.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Bowman on Friday said that a cautious culture inside the Fed’s regulatory staff hampered the group from moving faster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

While some Middle Eastern crude cargos are able to transit the Strait of Hormuz, fuel production has been hampered by the recent attacks on the region’s infrastructure.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Fiske is at full strength after being hampered last season by a knee injury sustained at the end of his rookie year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

It is never easy to prepare a case from prison, and in this instance we were hampered by the customary apartheid barriers.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Funding of councils, says the JRF, is "stretched to breaking point", with the current model "increasingly unfit for purpose" and "hampering local efforts to reduce poverty".

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Guam passed laws this year banning deep-sea mining vessels from calling at its ports, potentially hampering the industry by cutting off a crucial source of fuel and supplies.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Despite firefighting efforts, strong winds are fanning flames and hampering containment operations - with local media reporting that firefighting aircraft have been unable to fly on Thursday morning.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

But it has struggled against a lack of enforcement power and several nations -- notably China, Israel, Russia and the United States -- do not recognise its jurisdiction, hampering its ability to investigate their nationals.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

With the hampering help of my sisters I made the little doghouse.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls