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Paramount has said the deal will boost competition — not hamper it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

The state’s powerful doctors’ lobby, the California Medical Assn., also opposes the measure, arguing it would ban clinics from keeping funding in reserves and hamper their ability to upgrade equipment or expand to new locations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

Owning tanks placed on customer property can protect DCC from competitors, but it can also hamper its ability to expand as rivals take the same approach, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

He hopes that doesn’t hamper his job search.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

I dug his business card out of a pair of shorts in the laundry hamper.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

The lack of a reliable service hampers the ability of residents to get around, although the kindness of strangers can provide a lifeline.

From BBC ● May 4, 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

At 2.25%, the main rate sits at the low end of the central bank’s estimate for neutral, or the level at which policy neither stimulates nor hampers growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

People in Spokane found their picnic hampers and filled them with sandwiches and loaded them in the backseats of their own cars and headed west.

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

“We understand that Trucks North America experienced supply chain issues, which hampered higher volumes. However, we expect these to be resolved, allowing for lost volumes to be compensated in Q3.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Though the west African country's oil production has historically been hampered by pipeline theft and allegations of state corruption and mismanagement, the June numbers mark the highest recorded crude production since April 2020.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

The work has dragged on for years, hampered in part by smaller countries wary of losing the power over their financial sectors that helps them attract investment and trading companies to their own territory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

The decision severely hampered local planning for America’s 250th anniversary, disrupting history projects, museums and educational programs nationwide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

He also has his hired agents out searching, but his efforts to send and receive messages are hampered by the lack of telegraph lines through the Maryland and northern Virginia countryside.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

Winds of up to 50 mph stoked the flames and severely limited the fire response by hampering boat and aircraft access to the remote island.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Yet senior executives also warned rising prices and sporadic supplies shortages were hampering business.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

The central bank buying rupees dries up liquidity for commercial banks, hampering lending, Pramanik adds.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Some White House officials also worried that Anthropic wouldn’t have access to enough computing power to serve that many more entities without hampering the government’s ability to use it effectively, one of the people said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

To the west, the Demeter cabin and Grovers nature spirits had turned Sixth Avenue into a jungle that was hampering a squadron of Kronos s demigods.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan