blocked
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Authorities also reported blocked roads in other areas of Mexico where the cartel held sway.
From Los Angeles Times
He added a steal and four blocked shots -- three of them within the first two minutes.
From Barron's
In nearly all of those cases, he won preliminary rulings from the Supreme Court allowing his policies to take effect, notwithstanding lower-court injunctions that had blocked them.
A federal judge in Los Angeles blocked California’s first-in-the-nation mask ban 10 days earlier, on Feb. 9.
From Los Angeles Times
One of the main orbital highways around Vienna was closed for several hours, and other sections of highway were blocked by snowdrifts, stranded lorries or poor visibility, said the national automobile association, OAMTC.
From Barron's
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