stymie

Example Sentences

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But Indian cricket was stymied by the ICC regulation that meant Suryavanshi could not yet be picked for the senior team.

From BBC

The prison through which he is escorted is a maze of many gates, rusted metal barriers to movement that echo, with every thud and clank, the stymied processes of Soviet justice.

From The Wall Street Journal

Since the White House’s first steps to implement the ban, “capital flow has been stymied, to say the least,” said Invitation Homes CEO Dallas Tanner at a conference earlier this month.

From Barron's

The partial shutdown has stymied operations of the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other DHS agencies.

From Salon

The measure was widely decried by many in tech, who warned it would unleash patchwork regulation that would stymie AI development.

From The Wall Street Journal