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stonewall

[stohn-wawl] / ˈstoʊnˌwɔl /
VERB
delay
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The likes of Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham, Declan Rice and many others are now stonewall selections but the intrigue is around the remaining few spots still seemingly up for grabs.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

The administration’s attempt to stonewall Alcaraz’s family comes as no surprise.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that seeks to stonewall the project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

“An avoidant person often doesn’t know when their nervous system is ignited,” says Abito, so they need to figure out their triggers and what happens in their body before they stonewall and shut down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Several were sitting back on their haunches, their claws scraping at the chalky stonewall that flanked the waterfall.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

And then, when Tim stonewalls him about stealing a gun, Gaitok doesn’t respond with the obvious “dude, there’s video.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2025

Sections of historic stonewalls that line roads and mark property boundaries remain.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2020

Bosch finds out, but when he tries to report his findings, the billionaire’s staff stonewalls him.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2016

Bread Loaf was a postcard of open green fields, snaking stonewalls, an old barn and inn, painted in Marblehead gold.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 5, 2016

Up-up-up with incredible bumps and bouncings, trees, bushes, stonewalls went rushing to the sky!

From The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

After being stonewalled by automated model guardrails, the Citrini team reached out to Anthropic.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Herbert melted down, getting stonewalled on a fourth-and-one keeper, fumbling away the next possession, then ending the next with an interception.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

Opponents have also written to MPs in which they accuse the backers of the bill of having "stonewalled or rejected nearly every attempt to amend or improve" it.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

Lawyers for Kahn and Indyke said they hadn’t stonewalled discovery requests and have turned over hundreds of thousands of pages to private plaintiffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

If no one would answer her questions, she would do what she’d always done when people she cared about stonewalled her: She’d lose herself in art.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

I’m old enough to remember the last time we tried to do accountability, and we got stonewalling.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

The team also struggles with stonewalling from social media sites and chronic shortages of staff and funds.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

A lawsuit accuses the Justice Department and Todd Blanche of stonewalling the state’s investigation into activities at Zorro Ranch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

“If Starbucks keeps stonewalling, they should expect to see their business grind to a halt. The ball is in Starbucks’ court.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

It’s a tense moment, with Marge prying and Holly just as rudely stonewalling, but Holly, as team leader, prevails.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich


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