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impediment

[im-ped-uh-muhnt] / ɪmˈpɛd ə mənt /


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But perhaps the biggest impediment is that the test to become a grader isn’t getting any easier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

"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

That raises another potential impediment for state lawmakers hoping to goose the factory-built model: organized labor.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Perhaps there is some unforeseen problem to interstellar spaceflight—although, at speeds much less than the velocity of light it is difficult to see what such an impediment might be.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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