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That situation was called a stymie, and the term came to mean any block or obstruction. tee off; teed off To tee off is to begin the play of a hole by driving the ball off the tee.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
Are you concerned about, if it does get to that point, it might stymie (OFF-MIKE)?— CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2004
Does it stymie -- and David Gergen is back with us now.— CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2006
When your own ball is many yards away from the hole, and the one that makes the stymie is also far from it as well as far from yours, a pitch shot seems very often to be either inadequate or impossible.— The Complete Golfer
SANCHEZ: Soaring Seahawks stymie Steelers.— CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2006
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