stymie
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, other private portfolios seeking to go public have gotten stymied by their investors.
Records and interviews show hours of utter chaos at the command center for Eaton fire, with limited coordination among agencies and confusion about the path of the fire that stymied timely evacuations.
From Los Angeles Times
Hikers had spotted the body, but previous attempts to find and recover it had been stymied by heavy snow.
From Los Angeles Times
They are also thinking of ways to stymie enemy drones without accidentally thwarting their own.
That is distinct from FSOC’s earlier approach to evaluating risks, which he argued led to onerous regulation and stymied growth.
From Barron's
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