waylay
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Most projects take years to complete, hindered by the pendulum swings of available money, so Brewster tempers her frustration at having to waylay them mid-planning until she can find enough cash.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
But SNAs, at only billionths of a meter across, seem able to travel anywhere in the body and get inside cells before immune defenses can waylay them.
From Nature • Dec. 3, 2019
Peppy orange trim lines the space, alongside eye-catching screens meant to waylay passers-by.
From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2014
Your duties may involve delivering checks to vendors, organizing groomsmen to waylay belligerent uncles, and stopping the Electric Slide before it starts.
From Slate • Jun. 12, 2013
All went well that day, and no sight or sound had they of the enemy waiting to waylay them.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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