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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

Those that stonewall or improvise under pressure prolong the damage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

But Kornev is young and infused with an idealistic zeal, refusing to let these goons stonewall him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

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

Not when Lawson blows past Becton, and not when Becton stonewalls Lawson.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2021

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

From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2020

By late April 1973, however, the stonewalls were crumbling.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2017

From stonewalls, fences, trees and haylofts, the Americans had picked off the British redcoats as they retreated back to Boston, and had proved themselves to be foemen that could not be despised.

From A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. by Clayton Edwards

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Replimune has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for information on the review process, but the FDA has stonewalled its requests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 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

On a series in the second quarter, he limited a swing pass to Isaac Guerendo to a one-yard gain, then stonewalled the 49ers running back at the line of scrimmage on the next play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 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

That fracturing is going to make the stonewalling that they tried the last time around much more difficult, because there will be portions of that coalition that want to turn the page.

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

And even, to some degree, with the bureaucratic stonewalling they run into constantly, and the seemingly blasé attitude of state officialdom about destroying records on cold cases, or just responding to phone calls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

For months, his staff offered only the vaguest references to a medical issue, stonewalling reporters and leaving the voters of New Jersey’s seventh congressional district completely unrepresented.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026

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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