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Sodium also inhibits the growth of bacteria, making it almost ubiquitous in many categories of processed and packaged foods.

For the Covid-19 vaccine, side effects from the first dose, scheduling conflicts, or supply shortages may inhibit recipients from getting the second dose.

From Vox

Its short wavelength also inhibits its ability to travel distances or go through walls, which is part of why the Wi-Fi alliance sees such a strong future for 5G and Wi-Fi to complement each other down the road.

When those brain chemicals were inhibited by naltrexone and rimonabant, belief no longer mattered.

Climate change should not be up for debate, but too often the conversation focuses solely on the veracity of claims about the climate crisis, hitting an immediate roadblock and inhibiting our ability to further the discussion on possible solutions.

From Fortune

The high price of the Tesla Model S—about $60,000—is inhibiting more widespread adoption.

Uncertainty over the TPC's future is inhibiting new investment.

This could be sexually inhibiting for her, especially in a repressive time when all young women were supposed to be virgins.

It was a week of strained tenseness; a certain electricity seemed at hand in the atmosphere, inhibiting speech.

The only probable explanation is that the inhibiting circumstance was the established belief in the assumption.

The nervous shock had thrown the stomach out of order, inhibiting the secretion of gastric juice.

Certain media possess the power of inhibiting the growth of a greater or less number of species.

It was that which had held me silent in my chair, inhibiting all will to rise and begin the next needful step.

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

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