inhibited
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The US State Department said last year that "official complicity, including at senior levels, inhibited effective law enforcement action against trafficking crimes" in Cambodia.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
“It was an odd pairing: Harold Macmillan, the inhibited, repressed publisher’s son, and Bob Boothby, the warm, witty progeny of an Edinburgh banker,” writes Lynne Olson.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
Despite being shy and inhibited, he began “moonlighting” in the drama department, where, he later wrote, he found himself “fast losing my heart to drama.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025
Mr Ebenezer said he and his staff needed to be "allowed to do what we need to do and not be inhibited by ridiculous bureaucracy".
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2025
At night, by some chemical process unknown to me but obviously inhibited by sunlight, the predatory algae turned highly acidic and the ponds became vats of acid that digested the fish.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Vocabulary lists containing inhibited
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Lesson 4
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"Love's Vocabulary" by Diane Ackerman
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