Stymie used in a sentence

Stymie in a sentence as a noun

It might stymie some kid trying to learn about front-end web dev. Good job Netflix!

They know how to stymie investigations by tying the officers up in paperwork.

That is just short of 2000 items, and it is enough to stymie older versions of Firefox running on Core Duo machines.

What we do have some agency over is the internet, and the technical means to stymie surveillance.

This is what they do. If it is possible to twiddle the levers on the legal-political complex and stymie your competitors, why ever wouldn't you?

Discouraging investment by increasing capital gains tax is one of the surest ways to stymie economic growth.

Plenty of Singaporeans or Indians are, in fact, native speakers with accent and dialect differences that can stymie other English speakers.

Stymie in a sentence as a verb

Typically, whenever a player was clearly in an advantageous position, the remaining players would form a loose alliance, shuffling properties and cash in an attempt to stymie the leader.

At the same time, these blogs are informative of what companies are likely to get into and it should help stymie the surprises and perhaps keep the noise down for a while, so maybe it helps with growth by attracting those that are really willing to hack it.

And Democratic partisans will attack regulation when Republicans are making it, and many Republicans are perfectly glad to use the power of the state regulatory agencies to stymie abortion clinics in any way they can get away with.

It took a treatise on social software, including multiple citations of other social snafus, the painstaking gathering of stakeholder acceptance, and a near-fanatical perseverance to stymie a feature that was absolute poison to our privacy model.

Uh, so what are we afraid of here?Do you honestly believe that if the NSA decided they wanted your browser history, the encryption used by Chrome or Firefox would stymie them for too long?I guess I'm just not really clear on what folks are worried about happening with these history data.

> Do you honestly believe that if the NSA decided they wanted your browser history, the encryption used by Chrome or Firefox would stymie them for too long?If they care about your browser history specifically, then in a battle between one individual and a government-level adversary, I'd bet on the latter; it's unlikely they'd try to break the encryption when they could use keyloggers, cameras, or any number of other methods that work fine on targeted individuals.