How to Use embargo in a Sentence
embargo
noun
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And there is no embargo at all from the rest of the world.
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Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
2 Aug. 2021
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Now that all the embargoes have lifted, here’s a guide to all of them.
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Fortune,
6 July 2018
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The U.S. has had a trade embargo against Cuba for 56 years.
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Leada Gore,
AL.com,
15 June 2017
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The United States has a decades-old trade embargo on the island.
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Author: Sarah Marsh, Nelson Acosta,
Anchorage Daily News,
19 May 2018
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The cost of oil worldwide continues to be over $100 due to the embargo.
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Jordan Mendoza,
USA TODAY,
25 May 2022
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Then the embargo lifted and some of the reviews were pretty nasty.
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Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
16 June 2023
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The northern segment of the pipeline serves Poland and Germany — who have agreed to the embargo.
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Diksha Madhok,
CNN,
31 May 2022
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In order for that to happen, Congress would need to vote to lift the embargo.
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Alyson Sheppard,
Esquire,
12 Jan. 2017
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Restrictions, the embargo will not bring down the regime.
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Washington Post,
16 June 2017
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Is there some weird first-round embargo on Kris Bryant?
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Michael Beller,
SI.com,
14 Feb. 2018
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Libya lifts its 14-month-old oil embargo against the United States.
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Cnn Editorial Research,
CNN,
11 Apr. 2021
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The one at risk of being crippled by an embargo is now ZTE.
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The Economist,
19 Apr. 2018
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Or lift the trade embargo and end all U.S. sanctions to see what happens.
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Star Tribune,
18 July 2021
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Put a price cap on Russian oil while the EU hammers out an embargo.
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Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2022
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For one, that embargo is acknowledged to have backfired in the long run.
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Spencer Jakab,
WSJ,
15 Oct. 2018
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There's sticks, there's stones, and then there's breaking an embargo.
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Rebecca Farley,
refinery29.com,
30 May 2018
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The early 1970s saw the oil embargo, which caused oil prices to increase sharply and add to inflation.
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Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2023
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The measures loosen a 55-year-old trade embargo on Cuba.
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Michael Weissenstein,
The Mercury News,
5 Jan. 2017
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Many of these sanctions have since been lifted, but the arms embargo remains in place.
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Annabelle Timsit,
Quartz,
22 Mar. 2021
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Now, the West’s embargo will make catching up that much harder.
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Laurent Belsie,
The Christian Science Monitor,
24 Jan. 2023
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The cap is meant to work in tandem with a European Union embargo of Russian crude, set to start Dec. 5.
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Bob Henderson,
WSJ,
30 Nov. 2022
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Some of the places shown in the show are still under embargo, so check back next week to see more Charlotte restaurants and bars that were featured.
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Chyna Blackmon,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Feb. 2024
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Four years passed, and then, in October 2022, the embargo expired.
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David Quammen,
New York Times,
25 July 2023
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The salary was very bad due to the international embargo on Iraq.
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Pat McDonogh,
The Courier-Journal,
29 June 2017
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Prince is not the only one to have been accused of violating the decade-old arms embargo on Libya.
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Declan Walsh,
BostonGlobe.com,
19 Feb. 2021
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Trump and his team have called for China to impose an oil embargo on North Korea.
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Alexander Smith,
NBC News,
23 Dec. 2017
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American cars didn’t get small again until the first oil embargo hit in 1973.
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Eric D. Lawrence,
Detroit Free Press,
22 June 2019
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That’s why some experts don’t believe a full embargo will work.
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Alex Ward,
Vox,
24 Aug. 2018
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Russia’s coal is under embargo, and pressure is building to extend the ban to oil and gas.
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WSJ,
22 Apr. 2022
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So, less than two months after the rescue, the committee broke its own press embargo.
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Max Marshall,
SI.com,
26 June 2019
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