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The notion that America can interdict China’s oil supply and impair its access to crude is “stupid, stupid, stupid,” Papic emphasizes.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026

By contrast, a blockade allows US warships to loiter safely, far offshore in the waters of the Gulf of Oman, track vessels emerging from Iranian ports and interdict them at will.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

The Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has law-enforcement authority to interdict ships in international waters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

He said U.S. forces would interdict vessels and clear potential mines, while also signaling a readiness to escalate militarily if needed.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026

But it is certain that the Smoutchy ringleaders were not further punished, and Mr. Smith took no steps to enforce the interdict which he had obtained against trespassers on the castle island.

From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Environmental and community groups have sued companies including Shell in recent months, winning temporary interdicts that caused searches to be called off.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2022

Moreover, the sentiments of right and duty, so far as they have become developed, refer mainly to divine commands and interdicts; and have little reference to the natures of the acts commanded or interdicted.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer

The new provisor, the bishop of Camarines, had readily raised the interdicts and the suspension of religious functions.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

It teaches that God is all things, but interdicts this knowledge to the lower castes: it treats rites as a merely preliminary discipline, but it does not deny their value for certain states of life.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot

The government insisted that the obnoxious interdicts be withdrawn: the bishops refused to yield, and were prosecuted in the civil courts and sent to prison.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson

"The interdicted vessel, M/T Sophia, was operating in international waters and conducting illicit activities in the Caribbean Sea. The US Coast Guard is escorting M/T Sophia to the U.S. for final disposition."

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026

Noem did not share any identifying information of the tanker, and it was not immediately clear if the interdicted vessel was under US sanctions.

From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025

The threat has left tankers stuck off the coast of Venezuela, with shipping data showing some vessels making U-turns rather than risk being interdicted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

On March 1, Lebanon’s Finance Ministry announced it interdicted a suitcase with $2.5 million from someone arriving at Beirut airport — presumably a cash infusion for the group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025

It was but fifteen minutes after that we approached the wharves of our interdicted city.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Although China's ability to sever undersea communications cables, cyber attacks and interdicting maritime trade are the primary risk for Australia, "the direct strike threat is real and growing", the report said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

The U.S. has spent $1.4 billion to $1.6 billion interdicting drug boats and capturing Maduro, estimates Elaine McCusker, a former Pentagon budget official now at the American Enterprise Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Border Patrol said Operation Return to Sender “focused on interdicting those who have broken U.S. federal law, trafficking of dangerous substances, non-citizen criminals, and disrupting the transportation routes used by Transnational Criminal Organizations.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

“They don’t have air superiority, so their main way of interdicting this equipment is to strike facilities when the equipment is stationary,” Lee said.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022

The dry, spare tone of the physician interrupted,—a trite phrase interdicting agitation.

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree