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hamper

[ham-per] / ˈhæm pər /
NOUN
basket for storage
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Western disapproval isn’t going to hamper an organization this large and potent.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

Tesla is recalling nearly three million cars in China with interior door handles that could hamper a person's ability to exit their vehicle in an emergency, Beijing's national market watchdog said.

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

They face a host of challenges, including damaged hospitals and clinics, which hamper efforts to treat people, said Adib Fletcher, a senior director at Project Hope, a humanitarian relief organization.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Another intense heatwave on Tuesday could further hamper firefighting efforts.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

I kick the clothes-barf back into the hamper and then shove it into the closet.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

Earlier this year, former England defender Anita Asante suggested extended gaps between league games hampers momentum and rhythm for fans.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

The skills deficit hampers new grads as they are trying to launch themselves, he said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

A Hormuz bottleneck has taken its toll on global oil supply and snarled supply chains, while the targeting of energy infrastructure last week hampers energy production capacity.

From Barron's Mar. 22, 2026

At 2.25%, the main rate sits at the low end of the central bank’s estimate for neutral, or the level at which policy neither stimulates nor hampers growth.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 27, 2026

People in Spokane found their picnic hampers and filled them with sandwiches and loaded them in the backseats of their own cars and headed west.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

While some Middle Eastern crude cargos are able to transit the Strait of Hormuz, fuel production has been hampered by the recent attacks on the region’s infrastructure.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

Fiske is at full strength after being hampered last season by a knee injury sustained at the end of his rookie year.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

The government has put the dearth of milk in recent months down to drought, which has significantly reduced pasture and hampered production.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

Overnight rain and rising river waters also hampered rescue operations on Sunday, filling the excavation area with water before conditions eased, the Nepali army said.

From Barron's Aug. 31, 2026

It was a treacherous descent and Dumbledore, hampered slightly by his withered hand, moved slowly.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Employees expressed worries that moving out of DeepMind will lead to less access and insight into what the teams developing Google’s Gemini AI models are working on, hampering their ability to identify relevant research questions.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

In recent days, wind gusts reaching 80 kilometres per hour had grounded aircraft for safety reasons, hampering firefighting efforts.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

Cooling every home by machine would strain the grid and warm the streets, hampering the effort to slow the warming that drives the demand.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

But it has struggled against a lack of enforcement power and several nations -- notably China, Israel, Russia and the United States -- do not recognise its jurisdiction, hampering its ability to investigate their nationals.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

With the hampering help of my sisters I made the little doghouse.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls




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