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set back

verb as in delay, hinder

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His run to the last 32 in Miami has taken him to 59th in the live rankings before this injury set-back.

From BBC

A bill from that process will include the establishment of setbacks from schools, hospitals, medical facilities, multifamily housing, single family homes, and water bodies statewide — but a set-back distance has not been determined yet, Lujan Grisham spokesperson Maddy Hayden said in an email Wednesday.

This set-back took place while the Zephyr was testing the potential for such aircraft on behalf of the US Army.

From BBC

The decision by Justice Andre Mendonca, an Evangelical pastor who was appointed in 2021 by far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, represents a set-back for the rights of Brazil's roughly one million Indigenous people.

From Reuters

Durham’s investigation was dealt yet another major set-back just a few months later, when a jury in Virginia acquitted Russian researcher Igor Danchenko of charges that he lied to the FBI when he was interviewed about the sources of information he provided that became part of a document known as the “Steele dossier.”

From Reuters

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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