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deadlocked

adjective

as in unworkable

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Recent Examples of deadlocked The jurors' accounts offer the first public glimpse inside the deliberations that ended in a deadlocked jury. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 8 Sep. 2026 The Clancy trial ended in a mistrial after jurors remained deadlocked on a verdict. — Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026 The tragedy comes as Lindsay Clancy’s trial, which gripped the nation and sparked passionate debate, ended after the jury remained deadlocked and the judge declared a mistrial Friday. — Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026 The Lindsay Clancy murder trial appeared to be heading toward a mistrial Thursday as the jury remained deadlocked after six days of deliberations, and a question raised by the panel prompted the defense to call for one of the jurors to be dismissed. — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 3 Sep. 2026 If the jury remains deadlocked today, the judge may declare a mistrial, leaving the district attorney to decide whether to retry the case. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Sep. 2026 Jurors tasked with determining Clancy’s criminal responsibility in the deaths of her three young children have remained deadlocked. — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026 During the former, the court approved a special instruction encouraging a deadlocked jury to reexamine its positions. — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

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Adjective

Opponents have branded the bill unsafe and unworkable, citing concerns around potential coercion of vulnerable people and a lack of safeguards for those with disabilities.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026
Opponents branded the bill unsafe and unworkable, citing concerns around potential coercion of vulnerable people and a lack of safeguards for those with disabilities.

— Pan Pylas, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of unworkable

Adjective

There’s a brief pause, and then my phone goes haywire, inundated with Bluetooth signal spam — new Airpods connections, contact requests, an avalanche of popups that make my phone basically unusable until Hedge shuts it off.

— Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026
Phoenix Semiconductor engineers helped NAVAIR recover a supply of unusable legacy chips for a safety-critical system on the F/A-18 Super Hornet.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of unusable

Adjective

Darth Vader sports useless tape recorder-style buttons on his chest plate.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
David Shnaiderov, who directs the Nuclear Quantum division at Quantum X Labs, pointed out that simulating particle transport is useless without a practical way to represent real physical shapes.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of useless

Adjective

For nearly two decades, Rahul Gandhi has been portrayed as an entitled and ineffectual politician who could neither revive the Indian National Congress party nor challenge the iron rule of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

— Rana Ayyub, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2026
Eventually, another clause was added to restrict the maximum number of fielders placed behind square on the leg side to two, making bodyline, which requires positioning multiple fielders in that area of the field, largely ineffectual.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of ineffectual

Adjective

Getting too high can be just as unproductive as getting too low.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Supporters say shifting unproductive cropland to clean energy will help California meet its 100% renewable power goal, while farm groups warn of losing valuable agricultural land.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of unproductive

Adjective

North Dakota adopted a bill last year requiring a legislative council to study the feasibility of using nonproductive wells to generate geothermal power.

— Maria Gallucci, Wired News, 16 May 2026
Returning nonproductive properties to the tax rolls, creating jobs and boosting the quality of life are only some of the benefits of redeveloping troubled properties.

— Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026

Definition of nonproductive

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