impediment
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Even their typically rather conservative trade group, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, has said since 2023 that AM is unnecessary for emergency alerts and an impediment to making better cars.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
We wanted to see where it fails and what is the biggest impediment to making it 30-plus years following this strategy without running out of savings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
One impediment has been the spotty availability of charging infrastructure.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 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
He had a speech impediment that caused him to stutter badly.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
As much as you might want to stay in your home, new impediments can arise.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 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
These impediments may well have disillusioned some of the voters who backed Move Forward three years ago.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
The rules did draw backlash from some local startups, which called the rules vague or warned the fresh impediments could stymie innovation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
We are now on less certain ground; there may, for example, be impediments in the evolution of the genetic code, although I think this unlikely over billions of years of primeval chemistry.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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