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waylaid

verb as in intercept, ambush

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Like Ken Griffey Jr. before him, Trout’s mid-career injury problems have waylaid a meteoric career and stalled his historic rate of production at the plate.

Built on the bones of A Bug’s Land, construction for the Avengers Campus was waylaid due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but eventually opened to much fanfare within California Adventure.

Steel, an insurance company vice president before her retirement, and her husband, Rich Booman, discovered the project during the pandemic when their travel plans were waylaid.

There had previously been other investigations, some of which have been waylaid by similar issues.

Back in 1953, winemakers, seeing their profits collapse, set their wooden carts across a national highway at the start of the summer holiday to demand government aid and offer tastings to waylaid drivers.

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

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