Example Sentences

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The publisher, Penguin Random House, has tried to keep the book under tight wraps, embargoing the contents and only shipping it to bookstores just before its scheduled release.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2023

“A lot of people are wondering if you actually achieve anything by embargoing your results when everybody else can figure out how to do it anyway.”

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2019

There are many voices rightly calling for embargoing arms deliveries into South Sudan and a U.N.

From Time • Oct. 6, 2016

Later that day we had a glimpse of other dangers: Arab oil producers began embargoing all sales of oil to the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

This would save them from embargoing imports or from dumping their own currency and starting competitive currency depreciation.

From Time Magazine Archive