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stonewall

[stohn-wawl] / ˈstoʊnˌwɔl /
VERB
delay
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The administration’s attempt to stonewall Alcaraz’s family comes as no surprise.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Head coach Eddie Howe said the Magpies were refused a "stonewall" penalty when Chelsea defender Trevoh Chalobah barged Anthony Gordon to the ground.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that seeks to stonewall the project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

“An avoidant person often doesn’t know when their nervous system is ignited,” says Abito, so they need to figure out their triggers and what happens in their body before they stonewall and shut down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Several were sitting back on their haunches, their claws scraping at the chalky stonewall that flanked the waterfall.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

And then, when Tim stonewalls him about stealing a gun, Gaitok doesn’t respond with the obvious “dude, there’s video.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2025

Not when Lawson blows past Becton, and not when Becton stonewalls Lawson.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2021

Sections of historic stonewalls that line roads and mark property boundaries remain.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2020

Bread Loaf was a postcard of open green fields, snaking stonewalls, an old barn and inn, painted in Marblehead gold.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 5, 2016

Up-up-up with incredible bumps and bouncings, trees, bushes, stonewalls went rushing to the sky!

From The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

After being stonewalled by automated model guardrails, the Citrini team reached out to Anthropic.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Herbert melted down, getting stonewalled on a fourth-and-one keeper, fumbling away the next possession, then ending the next with an interception.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

For years they felt stonewalled, lied to and gaslit.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

Lawyers for Kahn and Indyke said they hadn’t stonewalled discovery requests and have turned over hundreds of thousands of pages to private plaintiffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

If no one would answer her questions, she would do what she’d always done when people she cared about stonewalled her: She’d lose herself in art.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

The team also struggles with stonewalling from social media sites and chronic shortages of staff and funds.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

The Madison Collection had been stonewalling these efforts for months, according to the lawsuit, refusing to turn over books and bank accounts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

And even, to some degree, with the bureaucratic stonewalling they run into constantly, and the seemingly blasé attitude of state officialdom about destroying records on cold cases, or just responding to phone calls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Elysée officials have told journalists that Macron was frustrated by his repeated attempts to build bridges to Algeria constantly coming to nothing because of Algerian stonewalling.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024

He has found that he can find out much of what he needs to know just by focusing on what he calls the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell


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