impedes

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“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

This is partly due to the leaderless nature of these demonstrations, which on the one hand helps protesters evade clampdowns - but also impedes long-term decision-making.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2025

It directly impedes the accurate compilation of labor data, a charge mandated by the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933, as well as by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2025

"When pursued," says Mrs. Bowdich, "he constantly impedes the progress of his enemies by throwing the soil behind him, so as to fill up the passages, while he escapes to the surface."

From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various