stymie

Wrobleski finally threw a hitless fourth, working around a leadoff walk to briefly stymie the Cubs’ offensive push.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Setting emotions aside, the timing of childbirth for older parents can stymie their earning power.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

Any slowdown in data center construction and completion would stymie a build-out that AI players desperately need.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Another issue with the potential to stymie talks from the beginning is the crucial oil shipping passage the Strait of Hormuz.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026

But he let me get hole after hole back until on the eighteenth green we were all even, we had played three apiece, I was stone dead and my ball laid him a dead stymie.

From Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. Hutchinson

Europe’s lack of one big customer also stymies defense-tech newcomers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

She said: “This is a disappointing and flawed approach that stymies crucial efforts to free Jimmy Lai and fundamentally undermines the government’s official position that he must be released.”

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024

“We need to be able to break the gridlock that too often stymies progress and blocks consensus at the Council.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

"Include me in that category, if it's unnecessary and inappropriate regulation that stymies innovation and technology advancements," Bucshon said.

From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2023

If the balls are much more than a foot apart, the "follow-through method" of playing stymies is almost certain to fail.

From The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon

Potential scientific breakthroughs could be stymied: in medicine, agriculture and even climate change adaptation.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

When retirees arrive at this place where they have everything mapped out and now it’s time to just work the plan, they can get stymied.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

Yet again, they found their voices stymied, their input limited to Post-it notes.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

Builder profit margins and sentiment in the industry have been stymied by a postpandemic rise in buying costs.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

That comes in handy in implementing the two principles of composition when they would otherwise be stymied by the rigid word order of English.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

But industrial output in Europe’s largest economy fell 1.2% in March, stymieing hopes for a recovery any time soon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

But their robustness means “everybody’s already got their mustang,” she said, stymieing the prospect of mass adoptions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

Second, at all levels of government, we must loosen regulations that are stymieing the construction and preservation of affordable homes.

From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2025

Georgia is also one of a group of states that outlaw direct sales of vehicles — stymieing companies like Tesla and Rivian that don’t sell their vehicles through dealerships.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2023

The companies also complained that bureaucratic delays are stymieing their operations.

From Reuters ● Jan. 6, 2023