stymie

Example Sentences

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AI’s rising unpopularity has the potential to stymie the growth of the AI boom, especially since continued growth will rely on a vast build-out of computing-data centers all over the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

It was supposed to improve information-sharing, not stymie it.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2026

Officials have not yet released the identities of any victims, and extreme weather in the area has continued to stymie efforts to search for the missing body, or even to retrieve those already confirmed dead.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

And they understand behavioral finance and the psychological biases that can cloud your judgment and stymie your saving, spending and investing habits.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026

But he let me get hole after hole back until on the eighteenth green we were all even, we had played three apiece, I was stone dead and my ball laid him a dead stymie.

From Fifty Years of Golf by Hutchinson, Horace G.