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embargo

noun as in prohibition, restriction

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He started his career at BP in the 1970s, as oil markets were opening up after the shock of the Arab oil embargoes.

Havana bashed the offer and called for a lifting of the embargo.

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It enforced a decades-long embargo against communist Cuba — while also launching a botched invasion of the island and trying to assassinate its leader —and imposed economic sanctions on left-wing adversaries in Nicaragua and Venezuela.

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China will also buy American soybeans again, after what amounted to an embargo that strained American farmers and led to demands for a Washington bailout.

“Pluribus” has been a tightly-guarded project for Apple TV with a strict embargo on details that makes it difficult to provide a lot of context to its premise.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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