stymied

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While options exist already for individuals to open their own retirement plans through IRAs, people often get stymied by the administrative hurdles and their own inertia and fail to create such accounts, experts said.

From MarketWatch

While options exist already for individuals to open their own retirement plans through IRAs, people often get stymied by the administrative hurdles and their own inertia and fail to create such accounts, experts said.

From MarketWatch

Neither stymied nor frustrated, the owl’s eyes grew a half size bigger and she let out a squeak of excitement.

From Literature

Rescuers, stymied by inclement weather, so far have located the bodies of seven women and a man killed in the avalanche.

From BBC

The noisy blasts that pepper towns across China in the weeks surrounding the Lunar New Year holiday were stymied after provinces began imposing strict bans on fireworks in the 2010s over safety and pollution concerns.

From Barron's