stonewalled
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After being stonewalled by automated model guardrails, the Citrini team reached out to Anthropic.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Essentially, the district has stonewalled any remedies for the situation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
“Harvard sued us. Harvard stonewalled us on document requests to which we were entitled. Harvard is defiant. And they’ve wasted time with settlement negotiations that I believe were not in good faith.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Murphy, who sits in Massachusetts, did not merely rule against the policy; he also documented the many ways that government officials lied, stonewalled, and disobeyed court orders throughout the litigation.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026
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
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