stymied
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Both governments say their plans for the country were stymied by crises out of their control – such as Covid, the Iran war and US trade antagonism.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Singapore enacted a Transboundary Haze Pollution Act in 2014, but enforcement has been stymied by jurisdictional barriers and challenges obtaining evidence from overseas.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Weather conditions have stymied efforts to help the animal, which was last seen Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
You haven’t seen how, at every step in creating, tooling and staffing a factory, Astra might be stymied into cul-de-sacs that a human helper would repeatedly have to steer it out of.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
I thought for a few minutes, stymied about how to get out of math.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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