impediment
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A major impediment to investment in business expansion and hiring across Europe is the expense of layoffs if the expansion project fails.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
"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 only actual change that had come over him in the past years was that, for some reason, his impediment had gotten worse.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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