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Phuket was the first place in Thailand to reopen in 2021 after the pandemic stymied international travel in much of the world.

They could also be stymied by technological failures such as power outages and disrupted cellphone signals.

This time, Brady was in the broadcast booth for Fox, and the guy chasing his seven rings was stymied at every turn.

His administration was further stymied when US District Court Judge Loren AliKhan issued a temporary restraining order on a sweeping freeze of federal spending.

For every success story, there seems to be a counter-story; for every autistic person who became well-adjusted, there are others who feel stymied from trauma.