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Recent Examples of deadlocked
Delegates had been seeking a breakthrough in the deadlocked United Nations talks in Geneva, but states pushing for an ambitious treaty said that the latest text released in the early hours of Friday failed to meet their expectations.
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Reuters, NBC news, 15 Aug. 2025
Reuters, NBC news, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deadlocked
Adjective
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Yet that path now looks unworkable.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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But their aims largely run counter to one another: One bill is accused of doing too much and implementing unworkable rules.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The website is almost unusable.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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The process requires hundreds of delicate manual steps, and any contamination renders a dose unusable.—
Jennifer Kite-Powell,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The American Psychological Association, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and other medical associations have issued statements calling the practice harmful and ineffective at altering someone’s identity.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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Companies are forced to place massive bets on drug targets that ultimately prove ineffective or unsafe.—
Miguel Llorca,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Digital fingerprinting collates an array of data from your phone — your IP address, device model and OS, time zone, setup and anything else if can get — to create a unique identifier in aggregate, even if each individual data snippet us useless on its own.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Never mind that large language models have so far proven useless at 95% of the companies that have made their workforces try to use them, researchers from MIT recently found.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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In addition to addressing an unmet need and providing credit and financial services to people who aren’t served because of ineffectual infrastructure, Loo sees Tala as a business that is taking big leaps.—
Jack McCullough,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The country is mired in a prolonged crisis brought on by years of hyperinflation, political corruption, economic mismanagement and an ineffectual government.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The key lies in understanding the difference between unproductive friction (the logistical hurdles that bog students down) and productive friction (the cognitive struggle that is essential for building real knowledge and skills).—
Dave Tucker,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Pick one seemingly unproductive attention-training activity and practice it consistently.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Course of trade in the oil industry often leaves the public on the hook for nonproductive well cleanup costs, including capping.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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Buoyed by the early promise of its Dravet therapeutic, the company developed a second drug candidate, STK-002, that similarly targets splicing to turn nonproductive gene transcripts into constructive ones.—
Elie Dolgin,
Discover Magazine,
26 Apr. 2023
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“Deadlocked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deadlocked. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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