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deadlock

noun as in stalemate, impasse

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Created in an election year and evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, it could have ended in partisan deadlock.

It was illegal and forced of course, but it seemed to be the only way out from the bloody political deadlock.

John Avlon talks to a former FBI hostage negotiator about how to break the deadlock.

Billionaire investor expresses impatient with deadlock, but says investors expect limited irrationality from D.C.

The problem is it may take years—even decades—until they reach a deadlock too painful to endure.

He wanted to get back at the old hound somehow—without giving in an inch in the mute deadlock.

And into the midst of this racket burst the news that the negotiations with Germany, Russia and France were at a deadlock.

A capitalist deadlock of markets brought on in 1914 the capitalist collapse popularly known as the World War.

There had been,—so they had said,—peculiarities so peculiar that it might be that the much-dreaded deadlock had come at last.

I got nowhere, until, in a manner as sudden as it was unexpected, something happened which ended the deadlock.

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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to deadlock, such as: dilemma, gridlock, plight, predicament, standoff, and standstill.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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