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Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said, “Secretary Hegseth ensured his message was aligned with the president’s objectives and agenda, and he did not want to impede upon the president’s decision space.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Experts have said that doing so can expose children to unforeseen risks such as identity theft, fraud or impede their privacy as they grow up.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

“It does not obstruct or impede lawful federal immigration enforcement operations.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

He pointed to "slowness, bureaucracy and norms that impede those who want to produce" as well as "decisions that we have put off."

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Bragg felt no qualms that this might impede science, since inquiries to Max and John had revealed nothing original in our approach.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Ignoring those, they said, “stifles that debate and our ability to move forward as a nation,” and impedes healing.

From Salon ● May 14, 2026

VAR: Which impedes his ability to get to the ball properly.

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

“Decoupling seller profit from buyer satisfaction impedes economic growth and slows innovation. Buyer surplus stagnates and inflation accelerates.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026

It deploys natural and social scientific methods to understand what advances and what impedes human flourishing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

The size of its unwieldy horns often impedes the range of its small, deep-set eyes, hence it can see only what comes immediately before it.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.

Because we all know what that means: In history written by the victors, the Luddites impeded technological progress, attempted to halt innovation, and were soundly defeated by the Industrial Revolution.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

In many of the cases, Bis said, the claimants impeded or assaulted agents.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

Shelby County also impeded votes that were cast from translating into meaningful political power, especially at the local level.

From Slate ● May 1, 2026

But production has been severely impeded by the war, with some major facilities forced to shut down.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

She was impeded by her own Shield Charm; by the time she had removed it he had already stormed into the night.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

The federal government is demanding that autonomous-vehicle companies address their driverless cars’ pattern of impeding or ignoring first responders and emergency vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Over the years, the number of cars parking near the bridge — often illegally, sometimes impeding emergency vehicles — has risen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

Prosecutors alleged their actions during a September protest outside the suburban Broadview detention center amounted to impeding or injuring an officer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

In the world of quantum computing, five years hardly seems like enough time to address the hurdles impeding the development of scalable, practically useful systems.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

“Do you feel like your thought patterns are impeding your daily life?”

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green