impediment
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But remember, despair isn’t activism—it’s just another impediment to progress.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
This is, by far, the main structural impediment to success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
“That makes sense, and there’s no legal impediment to doing that.”
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
"The absence of documentation is a serious impediment to continuing your lives," he told AFP in the capital Kabul.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Tyler’s speech impediment kept him quiet, made his tongue heavy.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
As much as you might want to stay in your home, new impediments can arise.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said at the weekend that assistance for the territory's 2.1 million population "must be scaled up by removing impediments and safeguarding neutrality of aid".
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
“At least the impediments that kept us from retaining recruits, to get them in the academy, that has changed.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
The EPA also removed "all federal impediments to selling E10," gasoline blended with 10 percent ethanol, Zeldin said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
Not counting Holy Week, Sundays, holy days of obligation, first Fridays, retreats, sacrifices, and cyclical impediments, her effective year was reduced to forty-two days that were spread out through a web of purple crosses.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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