impede
Example Sentences
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The big risk of screwworm spreading significantly within Texas is that it could substantially impede the growth of cattle herds, Maloni said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Likewise, Epstein saw #MeToo as a problem to be neutralized because the success of any social movement in which women were treated as reliable narrators of their own exploitation would impede his own racket.”
From Salon • May 23, 2026
“The shift away from tent-dwelling towards rough sleeping will impede strategies to resolve unsheltered homelessness,” the new report said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
But that factor is not expected to impede the arrival of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic.
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
They attached the line with which they had been snubbing the boat to Buck’s neck and shoulders, being careful that it should neither strangle him nor impede his swimming, and launched him into the stream.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
Vocabulary lists containing impede
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