Today’s Words That Work: Stonewall
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To stonewall — a word borrowed from the game of cricket — is to intentionally obstruct, block, or hinder.
Example (as used by James Surowiecki in The New Yorker): “Witness the popularity [on YouTube] of… Dave Carroll, whose guitar was broken by careless United Airlines luggage handlers and who wrote a song slamming uninterested flight attendants and stonewalling customer-service reps.”
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