impediment

Example Sentences

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"I have a speech impediment, I stutter, so for people who feel like they're not the 'typical' host, I want this to feel like a home."

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

That could be a serious impediment for Anthropic, whose Claude artificial-intelligence model is widely used by the U.S. military and government contractors.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

“There is no statutory impediment in the U.S. to closing Paramount’s proposed acquisition of WBD,” Paramount said in a regulatory filing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

And if there is any impediment, he will either ignore it or go around it.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2026

Furthermore, once malaria and yellow fever did become transmitted to the Americas by European ship traffic, they emerged as the major impediment to colonization of the New World tropics as well.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond