Example Sentences

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OpenAI has offered nine major UK banks access to its cyber security AI tool GPT-5.5 Cyber, as its fierce rival Anthropic has blocked them in previews of its version, Claude Mythos.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Huawei said its approach would allow it to make more-advanced chips without the one-of-a-kind machines its rivals use—equipment the U.S. has blocked it from accessing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Subsequent attacks and the US-Israel conflict with Iran, which has blocked transit through the Strait of Hormuz, have led shipping companies to reroute more of their vessels around the Cape of Good Hope.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Beijing has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of China-founded Manus, the artificial-intelligence platform.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

And all the walls around me, everything that has blocked my joy these past few months, oozes, trickles, and melts away.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi