variants
or tieing up
as in interfering (with)
to create difficulty for the work or activity of
an accident is tying up traffic at 5th and Broadway
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Verb
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Encourage open discussion about assumptions that may be holding back projects or growth.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025 -
But the tenacity of Kyiv’s forces in holding back the Russian summer offensive has been a remarkable outlier, and wider Russian progress remains a fierce possibility in the weeks ahead.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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After much complaining, Bungie reverted some nerfs like hampering the hyper-efficient Solo Ops farm.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Dankowski highlighted that the lack of this information would effectively mean losing one of the most important plasma diagnostic tools, significantly hampering scientific research at ITER and the safe operation of future power reactors.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Many financial groups continue to report that spending is largely holding up.—
Rob Wile,
NBC news,
16 Sep. 2025
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This opens up numerous applications, Ibrahim says, proudly holding up a vial of the yellow-brown slush in the lab.—
Sandy Ong,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Sep. 2025
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By now, ChatGPT and most other LLMs have mitigated such attacks, not by squashing prompt injections, but rather by blocking the channels the prompt injections use to exfiltrate confidential information.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
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Okunlola, meanwhile, hasn’t allowed a single sack or quarterback hurry in 59 pass blocking snaps while playing 120 snaps, mostly at left guard.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Tying up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tying%20up. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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