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traffic jam

noun as in traffic tie-up

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It’s unclear whether those listeners will return after the pandemic subsides and traffic jams return.

The Luna rolled straight into a rush-hour traffic jam, tailed by a truck full of Soviet soldiers.

People have enjoyed gaining back an hour or more of their day otherwise spent in traffic jams.

There won’t be the normal crowd of 70,000 in attendance, with traffic jams four hours before kickoff so fans can get into the stadium to watch the Corps of Cadets and the Brigade of Midshipmen march onto the field.

The new 6E encompasses the same basic technology as Wi-Fi 6, but it gets a lot more space in which it can move data, which leads to less interference and fewer traffic jams.

It would likely be a long wait because the accident had caused an island-wide traffic jam.

If the GOP controls both the House and the Senate, the gridlock to come will make recent times look like a minor traffic jam.

My guess is, from the evidence, that [the traffic jam] was something that Wildstein thought was actually funny.

Christie, an archetypal tough guy happy warrior, at first dismissed accusations that the traffic jam was politically motivated.

The governor has denied any involvement in the orchestrated traffic jam since rumors first surfaced back in September.

There was a bad traffic jam and it was some time before they reached the gate.

Lifting her veil, he saw a frail girl, and while the traffic jam increased she told her story.

Now that we were out of the traffic jam, I could poke along and use the camera myself.

The scramble to get out of the way of the engines had here resulted in a traffic-jam.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to traffic jam, such as: blockage, bottleneck, congestion, gridlock, logjam, and roadblock.

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

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