impediment
Example Sentences
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"I have a speech impediment, I stutter, so for people who feel like they're not the 'typical' host, I want this to feel like a home."
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
That could be a serious impediment for Anthropic, whose Claude artificial-intelligence model is widely used by the U.S. military and government contractors.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026
That raises another potential impediment for state lawmakers hoping to goose the factory-built model: organized labor.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
The businesses otherwise faced a big impediment: state rules that generally limit such contracts to five or 10 years and require competitive bidding to operate on property within a park.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026
The other major impediment, equally daunting as the compensation problem at first glance, even more so upon reflection, was the relocation of the freed slaves.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing impediment
"Harrison Bergeron"
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Othello
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