roadblock
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The housing supply has improved, but rising mortgage rates are now a roadblock for prospective buyers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
In the biggest races in the sport, such as three-week Grand Tour the Tour de France, some stages take place on fully closed roads, but many World Tour events use a 'rolling roadblock'.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He’s 6 feet 1, which some consider a roadblock to playing at the highest level, but it’s Fields’ intangibles that separate him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
She feared they would encounter a roadblock at any point and have to turn back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
A dark-green pickup truck pulled up to the roadblock on the town side of the bridge, and a lean man in a green uniform got out.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
“It’s absolutely incredible what it can do to reduce the limitations and the roadblocks and the chokepoints in everything from manufacturing supply chains, etc.,” says Lacalle.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Agents who tried to investigate Omar al-Bayoumi encountered other roadblocks.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Demonstrations over worsening living conditions escalated into a revolt, marked by roadblocks that cut off major cities and calls for the president's resignation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
“These roadblocks keep coming up, and it can make you feel like maybe God’s trying to tell me something.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Twice at roadblocks, soldiers searched both him and the nuns.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
