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  • noun Plural form of blockage.

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Examples

  • He dubbed the blockages "chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency," or CCSVI.

    MS Study Debunks Blocked-Vein Theory Thomas M. Burton 2011

  • There was also ki ga fusagu, which refers to blockages in vital energy.

    Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

  • But it turned out the cause of the blockages was a change made by Google that triggered the Great Firewall to mistake it for another site that is currently being blocked.

    ZDNet News - News Page One 2010

  • But it turned out the cause of the blockages was a change made by Google that triggered the Great Firewall to mistake it for another site that is currently being blocked.

    ZDNet News - News Page One 2010

  • But it turned out the cause of the blockages was a change made by Google that triggered the Great Firewall to mistake it for another site that is currently being blocked.

    ZDNet News - News Page One 2010

  • But it turned out the cause of the blockages was a change made by Google that triggered the Great Firewall to mistake it for another site that is currently being blocked.

    ZDNet News - News Page One 2010

  • Recruits, he says, are instructed to perform exercises to relieve the so-called blockages, including "Tao Holistic Healing, which requires participants to slap themselves - or to be slapped by the Dahn Masters - repeatedly."

    Courthouse News Service 2010

  • Though the numbers are less meaningful to the layman, the color green represents a normal balance, while red and yellow mean the body is creating blockages, which is not good.

    Greeley Tribune - Top Stories 2009

  • Her speech was peppered with New Age jargon — human beings were dragged down by "blockages" to their actual potential; history was the story of souls entering and escaping our field of consciousness.

    What Rielle Hunter Told Me 2008

  • Her speech was peppered with New Age jargon—human beings were dragged down by "blockages" to their actual potential; history was the story of souls entering and escaping our field of consciousness.

    The complicated story of Rielle Hunter and Jonathan Darman, the Newsweek reporter. Ann Althouse 2008

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