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: a jumble of logs jammed together in a watercourse
logjam
transitive verb
Examples of logjam in a Sentence
He was called in to try to break the logjam in the negotiations.
the presence of an ambulance on the side of the highway created a logjam of rubberneckers who just had to have a look
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There is also the big second-base logjam with Thomas Saggese already squeezed out by Brendan Donovan and Nolan Gorman, with JJ Wetherholt right on his heels, torching his way through Double A. Is this just a result of the reset (retool?
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Katie Woo, New York Times, 20 June 2025
And the ever-present potential of an injury means that the logjam could clear itself in the near future.
—Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
That was where the problem stood for 50 years — until Williams finally broke the logjam.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 21 May 2025
Driving the news: Last week, Witkoff hosted Dmitriev in Washington in an effort to break the logjam.
—Barak Ravid, Axios, 11 Apr. 2025
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Katie Woo, New York Times, 20 June 2025
And the ever-present potential of an injury means that the logjam could clear itself in the near future.
—Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
That was where the problem stood for 50 years — until Williams finally broke the logjam.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 21 May 2025
Driving the news: Last week, Witkoff hosted Dmitriev in Washington in an effort to break the logjam.
—Barak Ravid, Axios, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Logjam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/logjam. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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