inhibitor

noun

Definition of inhibitornext
as in obstruction

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Recent Examples of inhibitor One of them is Lipfendra, the first PCSK9 inhibitor available as a pill. — Abby Norman, Verywell Health, 5 Aug. 2026 The masked hero pops a power-inhibitor gadget on Jean, allowing Damage Control honcho Bill Metzger (Tramell Tillman) to capture her. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2026 By the end of the film, the Department of Damage Control has its hands on the universal inhibitor. — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 July 2026 The approval, which came ahead of the FDA target date by nearly two months, covers patients with advanced or metastatic tumors with ROS1 mutations who previously tried an ROS1 kinase inhibitor. — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 23 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for inhibitor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhibitor
  1. obstruction
  2. obstacle
  3. restraint
  4. constraint
  5. liability
  6. stranglehold
Noun
  • In December 2019, the House impeached Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress stemming from his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate then-former Vice President Joe Biden while withholding military aid.
    — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Her boyfriend, 18-year-old Royce Moser, has been charged with homicide and counts related to tampering with evidence, abuse of a corpse, obstruction and conspiracy.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of obstruction
Noun
  • Bond yields Persistent inflation, tariffs and whipsawing gas prices are not the only obstacles complicating the task for the Fed.
    — Brian Cheung, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The emotional incompatibility of self-care Applebaum said that even those who can overcome the practical obstacles often still struggle to take care of themselves.
    — Elissa Strauss, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of obstacle
Noun
  • If the answer is yes, then waiting ceases to be a strategy of restraint and begins to look like gradual erosion of power and strength.
    — Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Meghna Gulzar has a very distinctive voice and an ability to approach difficult subjects with both restraint and intensity.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of restraint
Noun
  • At coarser levels, CBS detects and matches SIFT features while using epipolar constraints to estimate horizontal and vertical disparities.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Huang said that if not for these constraints, revenue growth next year would be even greater.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of constraint
Noun
  • Under existing law, studios can choose to get cash back instead of claiming the incentives as a credit against tax liability — but at the cost of a 10% discount, with a payback period of five years.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 29 Aug. 2026
  • In 2000, when a small tanker carrying no liability insurance and no class certificate sank off Abu Dhabi, the Funds paid claimants in the United Arab Emirates anyway.
    — Charles Edward Gehrke, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of liability
Noun
  • The winner would move within one victory of lifting the Larry O’Brien Trophy that Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls had a stranglehold over for the previous three years.
    — Emile Nuh, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
  • This latest twist came after the most recent cycle of attacks failed to break Tehran’s stranglehold on the strait and in fact saw the war expand to the Red Sea and Egypt, threatening even greater fallout for the global economy.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of stranglehold

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