impeded
Example Sentences
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The ending, impeded by a retrospective coda, diminishes the full cathartic impact.
From Los Angeles Times
October’s economic data will be more difficult to produce because the shutdown impeded agencies’ abilities to field, collect, and process survey responses and price checks during the month.
From Barron's
Guimaraes may have argued the case with referee Stuart Attwell that Pope was impeded, but the goal rightly stood and Newcastle never recovered.
From BBC
He described the University of Chicago as an "idyllic academic institution" where he was "instilled with the capacity for critical thought and an ethical compulsion not to suffer fools who impeded his search for truth".
From BBC
"Economic and political weakness has impeded the growth of top-level football. Only with the transition to the current US ownership is the transformation from non-self-sufficient sports clubs to fully-fledged businesses taking place."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
