stalemate
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Stock futures moved sideways and 10-year Treasury yields held close to multiyear highs in cautious early European trade, as oil prices rose further on the continued stalemate in talks between the U.S. and Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
It appeared the stalemate did not look like being resolved.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Their stalemate with Everton was their first goalless draw at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the Premier League after 140 games.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
“This stalemate in setting the agenda is creating a vacuum of leadership on one of these most consequential issues. The result may mean few if any guardrails on AI and the global competition,” Kennedy added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
“To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion,” reported Cronkite.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
Ditto for certain infamous stalemates that did not end well for the continued employment of a few big-name cast members, Norm Macdonald and Adam Sandler among them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
Both sides agreed and one of the final remaining stalemates was resolved.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
America’s Global War on Terror has seen its share of stalemates, disasters, and outright defeats.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2023
The Senate Republican leader has played a key role in resolving past stalemates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023
The months subsequent were an endless dreary battle of paperwork, full of stalemates, fought in trenches.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
While the shadow of the stalemated war with Iran looms over the market, Wall Street has been booming, thanks largely to tech stocks.
From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026
Also, 17 of the 19 Tests were drawn, including three consecutive stalemated series.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
That’s a rare advance in a stalemated Congress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
Today, both sides are locked in a stalemated battle of attrition.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2023
The reasoning was this: I simply could not stand what I had become—stale, perhaps, or stalemated by what appeared to be my faltering body.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
Hill totaled a team-high six tackles — including a stalemating hit at the line of scrimmage on a blitz — in his first game in crimson and gray.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2021
The Rams were without Cooper Kupp, but the Green Bay’s cornerbacks still deserve ample credit for stalemating a great receiving corps.
From Reuters ● Nov. 1, 2018
McLendon proved excellent at stalemating and disengaging from blockers in spot duty last season.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2012
Franklin plays with tremendous leverage and is nearly peerless when it comes to moving laterally while stalemating two offensive linemen.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2011
By a remarkably ingenious device White averts the loss of the game by stalemating himself as follows:— 1.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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