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Recent Examples of blockage
Signal blockage also significantly undermines positioning accuracy.
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Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
Ahead of the physical re-releases of two of her popular books this month, The Takeover and The Stopover, the Australian author spoke with Flow Space about the years-long search for an answer to her creative blockage and how menopause impacted her creativity and motivation.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 11 Sep. 2025
At the hospital, McDowell was informed that surgery was needed to clear the blockage that caused the stroke.
—Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2025
In January 2023, Claire Barbery from Newquay, England, experienced a blockage in one side of her nose.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
Ahead of the physical re-releases of two of her popular books this month, The Takeover and The Stopover, the Australian author spoke with Flow Space about the years-long search for an answer to her creative blockage and how menopause impacted her creativity and motivation.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 11 Sep. 2025
At the hospital, McDowell was informed that surgery was needed to clear the blockage that caused the stroke.
—Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2025
In January 2023, Claire Barbery from Newquay, England, experienced a blockage in one side of her nose.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blockage
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The proposal of a drone wall, which is particularly supported by Baltic and Eastern European states, is intended as both a deterrence and defensive barrier, as well as a way to pool resources to bolster Europe’s collective defense.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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Prospective vehicle buyers consistently rate a lack of charging infrastructure as a key barrier to entry for EV adoption.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Israel has enforced a naval blockade on Gaza since Hamas seized control in 2007, saying it is needed to prevent weapons smuggling.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Gaza has been under an Israeli naval blockade since 2007, when Hamas took power.—
Chantal Da Silva,
NBC news,
24 Sep. 2025
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He has been charged with armed kidnapping, willful injury, domestic abuse assault with the intent to inflict serious injuries and obstruction of emergency communications, according to public court records.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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Bondi’s appearance on Fox News comes days after Comey was indicted by a federal grand jury on two of three counts sought by prosecutors, one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice, according to documents.—
Sydney Topf,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Sep. 2025
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Throughout are artful and ethereal light fixtures, and, in the office, a backlit stone wall glows behind floor-to-ceiling display shelves.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
25 Sep. 2025
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In the first section, a stone wall decoration reveals the earliest sculpture of a horse found in East Asia while a reproduction of the walls of the Chinese city of Shimao offers many animal-like images.—
Penny E Schwartz,
Oc Register,
20 Sep. 2025
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Whatever the eventual outcome, most observers are wary of such political interference in traditionally independent bodies.—
Nick Thomas,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Oct. 2025
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Due to their isolated nature, rogue planet observations don’t suffer from interference caused by stellar radiation from host stars.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
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Over the next 12 months, HMS will gain access to mentorship, commercial opportunities, business and legal advisory, digital tools, and physical resources such as co-working spaces and wet labs, support designed to help early-stage companies overcome common obstacles that startups face.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
29 Sep. 2025
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The permit problem According to Saltzer, capture is lagging because, despite available storage and existing pipelines, permitting new CO2 infrastructure remains a major obstacle.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Sep. 2025
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And the second impediment was the kids did not exactly present with a full and rich interior life or subjectivity.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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Lyninger expressed skepticism over how traffic impediments would be defined and what level of street congestion would be permissible.—
Killian Baarlaer,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Sep. 2025
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Maintaining the correct proportion of excitation to inhibition is critical for keeping the brain healthy and harmonious.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Sep. 2025
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This also supports the idea that swearing can momentarily activate mental states that reduce inhibition and allow the body and mind to perform at a higher level.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Blockage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blockage. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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