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stymied

[ stahy-meed ]

adjective

  1. hindered, blocked, or thwarted:

    In this drama he plays a stymied professor of history who has never managed to become department head.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of stymie.
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That toughening was welcomed by the public as an antidote to a judicial system stymied by an indulgent culture of successive appeals that enabled – and sometimes still enables - politicians to dodge accountability for decades.

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But the need is great, complicated by the street drugs some people use for self-medication, and progress is often stymied by multiple forces despite billions of dollars worth of investments in solutions.

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Phuket was the first place in Thailand to reopen in 2021 after the pandemic stymied international travel in much of the world.

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They could also be stymied by technological failures such as power outages and disrupted cellphone signals.

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This time, Brady was in the broadcast booth for Fox, and the guy chasing his seven rings was stymied at every turn.

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