impede
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Meta and other tech companies have increasingly been seeking talking points to counter the surge in negative sentiment, which threatens to impede the build-out of computing capacity needed for their AI models and products.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
The big risk of screwworm spreading significantly within Texas is that it could substantially impede the growth of cattle herds, Maloni said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 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
“The shift away from tent-dwelling towards rough sleeping will impede strategies to resolve unsheltered homelessness,” the new report said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
There was nothing to impede them this time, and Malcolm brought the canoe into a side street away from the main flood, where it was a little quieter.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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