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Corporate cybersecurity systems increasingly block these apps and devices, and productivity trackers claim to be able to detect them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

When the film opens at Oak Street’s idyllic summer block party, complete with cookouts and kids happily pedaling together on their bikes, he purposefully evokes the atmosphere of the movies he covertly cites.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

“Displacing our neighbors from block to block, or in many cases from district to district, doesn’t help them find housing,” said Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez in asking his colleagues to remove the camping ban.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

He would regularly try to block bills by talking them out.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

I ignored him, I closed my eyes, trying to block out all the din around me and focusing only on the voices in my headset, where the Frenchman was keeping his agonized wait.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Cantor Fitzgerald will act as a broker, buying or selling blocks of event contracts and helping to distribute them through private negotiations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

These tumors often create a "cold" tumor microenvironment that blocks immune cells from launching an effective attack.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

First, defending in this way blocks the centre of the pitch making it difficult for opponents to find players through the middle.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

A few blocks away, Sloppy Joe's is closed too, despite being extensively restored by the team of Havana's famed historian, Eusebio Leal.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

The whole village was gathered on Main Street, which was two blocks long.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

A judge blocked the Trump administration from relocating FBI headquarters to which federal office facility?

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

Minnesota tried to ban prediction markets outright, until a federal judge blocked the law days before it took effect, ruling that the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

He has also released two sweeping executive orders on elections, but their major provisions have been so far blocked by federal courts.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

One was being treated for brain cancer and the other had a blocked kidney.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

“They’re trying to come, but it’s going to take awhile. The road is blocked and the bridge is out.”

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

She said: "We were met by lines of riot police blocking our access."

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Louai Abu Ridi owns one of the three houses in Qusra, near Nablus, which settlers began besieging more than a week ago, trapping residents inside and effectively blocking supplies, generating condemnation around the world.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Wikipedia is also highly cited, but sources tell me the gatekeepers to Wiki pages are even stricter than Reddit mods when it comes to blocking promotional amendments, and rightly so.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Just hearing him describe the importance of blocking as a receiver shows the effect having a coach as a father has had on him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

A crude log fence was half blocking the left fork.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack