gridlock
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Miller is now a full-time practitioner of Chinese medicine, navigating Manhattan’s gridlock and Brooklyn’s brownstones carrying a doctor bag of needles and laser equipment.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
Now they, too, are concerned about the potential for gridlock.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026
Demonstrators, many organising online outside of formal representative bodies, have also used convoys on motorways to snarl traffic and tractors to gridlock central Dublin on occasions.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
The combo of remote work and empty buildings downtown would mean fewer commuters causing gridlock, but also fewer clients for businesses in the area.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
Hoping to avoid dangerous gridlock on the summit ridge, Hall held a big powwow with leaders of the other expeditions in Base Camp.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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