roadblock
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The housing supply has improved, but rising mortgage rates are now a roadblock for prospective buyers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
"We hit a roadblock so hard, I think we all had airbag burns," said Steve Moore, who oversaw the FBI's 9/11 investigation in LA.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
He’s 6 feet 1, which some consider a roadblock to playing at the highest level, but it’s Fields’ intangibles that separate him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
That’s because playing on the same defensive line might clear the biggest roadblock that they have faced stopping them from putting up even gaudier numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
There’s another roadblock up ahead, and soldiers directing people down another suburban funnel that leads either back to the high school, or to an “overflow facility” that will be the last place to see water.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
“It’s absolutely incredible what it can do to reduce the limitations and the roadblocks and the chokepoints in everything from manufacturing supply chains, etc.,” says Lacalle.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Power supply and chip supply are also roadblocks to superintelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Police have imposed a lockdown in Kempton Park in the Ekurhuleni municipality and officers mounted roadblocks after three of the bodies were found this week.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Agents who tried to investigate Omar al-Bayoumi encountered other roadblocks.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
When law enforcement officers asked for more roadblocks and more officers to enforce the blocks, their director denied their request.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
