impede
Example Sentences
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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
Fed minutes will do nothing to impede the march higher in yields, said Andrew Hollenhorst, U.S. chief economist at Citi.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
Barr warned that proposals to shrink the balance sheet would undermine bank resilience and impede money market functioning.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 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
They attached the line with which they had been snubbing the boat to Buck’s neck and shoulders, being careful that it should neither strangle him nor impede his swimming, and launched him into the stream.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
Vocabulary lists containing impede
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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