blocked
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Australia's highest court in October blocked the expansion of a coal mine in New South Wales, saying that planning bodies had not properly looked at the local impacts of planet-heating emissions from the coal.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
Leung was charged in 2003 with obtaining, copying and retaining national security documents, but the U.S. government ultimately blocked the defense from talking to a key witness: her former FBI supervisor, Smith.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
Muzz said the man had been permanently blocked from its platform.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
China recently blocked its $5.4 billion acquisition of Swiss industrial giant ABB’s robotics business, a deal announced in October 2025 aimed at combining the potential of AI with robots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
I’d blocked it out before but now I can see it play out, like it happened yesterday.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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