impede
Example Sentences
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Convention on Privileges and Immunities, he can do so whenever “the immunity would impede the course of justice.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Likewise, Epstein saw #MeToo as a problem to be neutralized because the success of any social movement in which women were treated as reliable narrators of their own exploitation would impede his own racket.”
From Salon • May 23, 2026
But that factor is not expected to impede the arrival of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
Feigin, the Justice Department attorney, said a ruling for Chatrie “would impede the investigation of kidnappings, robberies, shootings and other crimes.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
He was half tempted to go pick it for Trina, but he knew she’d scold him within an inch of his life if he dared impede the progress of the forest.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
Vocabulary lists containing impede
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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