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stonewalls

  • present tense form of stonewall (3rd person singular).

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And then, when Tim stonewalls him about stealing a gun, Gaitok doesn’t respond with the obvious “dude, there’s video.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 16, 2025

By late April 1973, however, the stonewalls were crumbling.

From New York Times Jun. 27, 2017

Storytelling, jokes and stonewalls make this section feel like Ireland, not ancient Greece.

From Washington Times Jun. 19, 2017

Bosch finds out, but when he tries to report his findings, the billionaire’s staff stonewalls him.

From Seattle Times Nov. 10, 2016

I look beneath the stonewalls, where the verdure is richest, in hopes that a little company of violets, or some solitary bud, prophetic of the summer, may be there.

From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Hawthorne, Nathaniel